Summary Hear of Darkness

Heart of Darkness

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|Author |Joseph Conrad |

|Country |United Kingdom |

|Language |English |

|Genre(s) |Frame story, Novella |

|Publisher |Blackwood's Magazine |

|Publication date |1902 |

|Media type |Print (serial) |

|ISBN |N/A |

|OCLC Number |16100396 |

Heart of Darkness is a novella written by Joseph Conrad. Before its 1902 publication, it appeared as a three-part series (1899) in Blackwood's Magazine. It is widely regarded as a significant work of English literature[1] and part of the Western canon.

The story tells of Charles Marlow, an Englishman who took a foreign assignment from a Belgian trading company as a ferry-boat captain in Africa. Heart of Darkness exposes the dark side of European colonization while exploring the three levels of darkness that the...