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The Penguin English Library Edition of Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

´The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. What was there after all? Joy, fear, sorrow, devotion, rage - who can tell? - but truth - truth stripped of its cloak of time. Let the fool gape and shudder - the man knows, and can look on without a wink´

Marlow, a seaman, tells of a journey up the Congo. His goal is the troubled European and ivory trader Kurtz. Worshipped and feared by invaders as well as natives, Kurtz has become a godlike figure, his presence pervading the jungle like a thick, obscuring mist. As his boat labours further upstream, closer and closer to Kurtz´s extraordinary and terrible domain, so Marlow finds his faith in himself and civilization crumbling. Conrad´s Heart of Darkness has been considered the most important indictment of the evils of imperialism written to date.

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Conrad, Joseph
Joseph Conrad´s major works (all published by Penguin Classics) include Heart of Darkness, Nostromo, Lord Jim,Under Western Eyes, The Secret Agent and Typhoon.

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