Heart of Darkness
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Conrad, Joseph
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Duke Classics
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Joseph Conrad. Heart of Darkness. Duke Classics.

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Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness. Duke Classics.

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Joseph Conrad. Heart of Darkness. Duke Classics,

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Heart of Darkness is Joseph Conrad's disturbing novella recounted by the itinerant captain Marlow sent to find and bring home the shadowy and inscrutable Captain Kurtz. Marlow and his men follow a river deep into a jungle, the "Heart of Darkness" of Africa looking for Kurtz, an unhinged leader of an isolated trading station. This highly symbolic psychological drama was the founding myth for Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 movie Apocalypse Now.

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