TY - BOOK AU - Conrad,Joseph TI - Heart of Darkness AV - PR PY - 2006/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Africa -- Fiction KW - Europeans -- Africa -- Fiction KW - Trading posts -- Fiction KW - Degeneration -- Fiction KW - Imperialism -- Fiction KW - Psychological fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_of_Darkness; See also PG#526; Release date is 2006-01-09; Judith Boss and David Widger; Original publication data not identified N2 - "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad is a novella published in 1899. Sailor Charles Marlow recounts his journey as a steamer captain for a Belgian company deep into the African interior. His assignment: to find Kurtz, an ivory trader who has mysteriously "gone native" at a remote station upriver. Conrad's tale explores European colonialism, power, and morality while questioning the boundary between civilization and savagery. The novella provides a dark meditation on imperialism, drawing unsettling parallels between London and Africa as places shrouded in darkness. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/219 ER -