Heart of Darkness
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| Rating | : | 4.22 (662 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1503275922 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 78 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-08-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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Conrad s literary works often featured a nautical setting, reflecting the influences of his early career in the Merchant Navy, and his depictions of the struggles of the human spirit in a cold, indifferent world are best exemplified in such seminal works as Heart of Darkness, Lord JimM, The Secret Agent, Nostrom
what a huge waste of my time and money This is just the first chapter of the book. This was not stated as so, or at least not clearly. I needed this for school, what a huge waste of my time and money.. "Couldn't Stop Highlighting Key Ideas. Great Read." according to Amazon Customer. Great book that explores the nature of humans. Conrad writes incredibly well and the imagery is superb. I felt like there were key insights everywhere in the book, I couldn't stop highlighting. The book is a bit slow and dense with all ideas presented in such a short length, but definitely worth reading it through to the end. You can see the dark nature of humans surfacing in the difficult conditions and the q. Thematically brilliant, completely aloof to the suffering. The story itself, the mechanics, the prose, are far less impressive than the message Conrad conveys. Thematically, this is a towering work, which is why it has influenced countless authors, filmmakers and commentators, but to a 21st Century eye, its flaws are glaring, not least of which is the virulent racism evinced by the characters and, sadly, the author. It is a novel that seems to both praise and condemn
. About the Author Polish author Joseph Conrad is considered to be one of the greatest English-language novelists, a remarkable achievement considering English was not his first language. Burroughs, Hunter S. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, William S. Many of Conrad s novels have been adapted for film, most notably Heart of Darkness, which served as the inspiration and foundation for Francis Ford Coppola s 1979 film Apocalypse Now. Thompson, and George Orwell, among many others. Conrad s literary works often featured a nautical setting, reflecting the influences of his early career in the Merchant Navy, and his depictions of the struggles of the human spirit in a cold, indifferent world are best exemplified in such
The river is "a mighty big river, that you could see on the map, resembling an immense snake uncoiled, with its head in the sea, its body at rest curving afar over a vast country, and its tail lost in the depths of the land". The story is a complex exploration of the attitudes people hold on what constitutes a barbarian versus a civilized society and the attitudes on colonialism and racism that were part and parcel of European imperialism. Kurtz. Originally published as a three-part serial story, in Blackwood's Magazine, the novella Heart of Darkness has been variously published and translated into many languages. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Heart of Darkness as the sixty-seventh of the hundred best novels in English of the twentieth century.. In the course of his travel in central Africa, Marlow becomes obsessed with Mr. Heart of Darkness (1899) is a short novel by Polish novelist Joseph Conrad, written as a frame narrative, about Charles Marlow's experience as an ivory transporter down the Congo River in Central Africa