20th CenturyImaginative Literature

Conrad: Heart of Darkness

A voyage up the Congo River to find a man named Kurtz, and an indictment of colonial greed.

✎ Being written
Volume
59 of the 1990 set
Author
Joseph Conrad (1857–1924)
Work
Heart of Darkness 1899

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A note for parents: Describes colonial cruelty and uses the racial language of its time; for older readers.

Being written

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