Heart of Darkness

Joseph Conrad

Ascent Audio, Jun 29, 2020 - Fiction - 150 pages

Heart of Darkness is about a voyage into the Congo Free State in the heart of Africa, by the story's narrator Marlow, an introspective sailor who takes a job as a riverboat captain with the Company, a Belgian concern organized to trade in the Congo.

About the author

Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. Though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he was a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Heart of Darkness
• Author: Joseph Conrad
• Publisher: Ascent Audio, 2020
• ISBN: 1722503017, 9781722503017
• Length: 150 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Action & Adventure; Fiction / Classics; Fiction / Literary