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One of my favourite novellas, written as a condemnation of the atrocities inflicted in the Belgian Congo. Modern authors may be outraged at the racist language that the author uses at times, yet the tone of moral outrage is sincere. Conrad was not a tender man; but the inhumnanity of the Belgian authorities towards the local population stirred him to horror, and horror at self -seeking corruption, in the darkness that can lie at the heart of humanity, is of course, the subject of this book.
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The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad's is a tale of a journey to the very depths of the African jungle during the British colonial period. Four men sit aboard ship on the Thames waiting for the tide to go out and their journey to begin. While waiting, Marlow seated cross legged against the mizzenmast begins his tale his journey into the heart of darkness, "And this also has been one of the dark places on earth." As he continues his tale by saying that "The conquest of the earth...is not a pret
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