Heart of Darkness
Read a sample about 154 minutes
On a yacht anchored in the Thames estuary at dusk, the sailor Marlow tells how he once took a steamboat up the Congo for a Belgian trading company. Deep in the interior waits Kurtz, the company's star ivory agent, and what Marlow finds there exposes the violence behind Europe's civilizing talk.
- Genres
- Novellas, Literary Fiction
- Set in
- Gravesend, England, United Kingdom; Kisangani, Tshopo, Congo - Kinshasa; Brussels, Brussels Capital, Belgium
- Audience
- Adult
- Published
- 1899
- Pages
- 136