Heart of Darkness
Marlow, sitting on a yawl anchored in the Thames, tells how he took command of a river steamer for a Belgian trading company in Africa. Everywhere upriver he hears about Kurtz, the company's most productive agent, and his errand narrows to fetching that man out of the last station. A voyage into the self's own capacity for barbarism; the horror at the center is human.
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- ↓ The Great Gatsby
- ↓ Things Fall Apart
- ↓ The Quiet American
- ↓ A Bend in the River
- ↓ Apocalypse Now
- ↓ Season of Migration to the North
- ↓ Lord Jim
- ↓ A Burnt-Out Case
- ↓ The Hollow Men
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