# Heart of Darkness

by [Joseph Conrad](https://localbooks.app/authors/joseph-conrad)

- Genres: [Novelas](https://localbooks.app/genres/literary-fiction/novellas), [Ficção Literária](https://localbooks.app/genres/literary-fiction/literary-fiction)
- Set in: [Gravesend, Inglaterra, Reino Unido](https://localbooks.app/places/gb/england/gravesend); [Kisangani, Tshopo, Congo - Kinshasa](https://localbooks.app/places/cd/tshopo/kisangani); [Bruxelas, Bruxelas-Capital, Bélgica](https://localbooks.app/places/be/brussels-capital/brussels)
- Audience: Adult
- Published: 1899
- Pages: 136

## Description

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.

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