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Aug 14, 2024, 11:38 AM
Heart of Darkness (Penguin Clothbound Classics)
Joseph Conrad's haunting Modernist masterpiece, now in the beautifully designed Penguin Clothbound Classics series. This novel has been considered for most of this century as a literary classic, and also a powerful indictment of the evils of imperialism. It reflects the savage repressions carried out in the Congo by the Belgians in one of the largest acts of genocide committed up to that time. Conrad's narrator encounters at the end of the story a man named Kurtz, dying, insane, and guilty of unspeakable atrocities. What he sees on his journey, and his eventual encounter with Kurtz, horrify and perplex him, and call into question the very bases of civilization and human nature.
Joseph Conrad
Title : 9780241655573
ISBN : 9780241655573
Publisher : Penguin Classics UK
Pages : 192
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Pub date : Jul 4, 2024, 08:00 AM
C m s pub date : Aug 13, 2024, 08:00 AM
Length : 204
Width : 132
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Joseph Conrad's haunting Modernist masterpiece, now in the beautifully designed Penguin Clothbound Classics series. This novel has been considered for most of this century as a literary classic, and also a powerful indictment of the evils of imperialism. It reflects the savage repressions carried out in the Congo by the Belgians in one of the largest acts of genocide committed up to that time. Conrad's narrator encounters at the end of the story a man named Kurtz, dying, insane, and guilty of unspeakable atrocities. What he sees on his journey, and his eventual encounter with Kurtz, horrify and perplex him, and call into question the very bases of civilization and human nature.
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