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Heart of Darkness written by Joseph Conrad performed by Scott Brick on CD (Unabridged)

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ISBN:  9781400130610
Genre - Main:  Fiction
Genre - Specific:  Classic English
Duration:  273 mins
Length:  Unabridged
Author:  Joseph Conrad
Narrator 1:  Scott Brick
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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. Although Conrad does not give the name of the river, at the time, Congo Free State, the location of the large and important Congo River was a private ...

... colony of Belgium's King Leopold II. Marlow is employed to transport ivory downriver. However, his more pressing assignment is to return Kurtz, another ivory trader, to civilization, in a cover-up. Kurtz has a reputation throughout the region.

This symbolic story is a story within a story or frame narrative. It follows Marlow as he recounts from dusk through to late night, to a group of men aboard a ship anchored in the Thames Estuary his Congolese adventure.

The passage of time and the darkening sky during the fictitious narrative-within-the-narrative parallel the atmosphere of the story.

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