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Heart of darkness: Joseph Conrad ; read by Scott Brick.

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Record Number 713188
Author Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924
Title Heart of darkness [electronic resource] / Joseph Conrad ; read by Scott Brick.
Publisher/Date [Old Saybrook, Conn.] : Tantor Media, 2002.
Series Unabridged classics
Contents note Downloadable audio file.
Title from: Title details screen.
Unabridged.
Duration: 4:40:30.
Performer note Read by Scott Brick.
Summary Note Horror awaits Marlow, a seaman assigned by an ivory company to retrieve a cargo boat and one of its employees, Mr. Kurtz who is stranded in the heart of the Africa, deep in the Belgian Congo. Marlow's journey up the brooding dark river soon becomes a struggle to maintain his own sanity as he witnesses the brutalization of the natives by white traders and discovers the enigmatic Mr. Kurtz. Kurtz, once a genius and the company's most successful representative, has become a savage. His compound is decorated by a row of human heads mounted on spears. The demonic mastermind, liberated from the conventions of European culture, has traded his soul to become ruler of his own horrific dominion.
Subject Europeans -- Africa -- Fiction
Suffering -- Fiction
Africa -- Fiction
Psychological fiction.
Audiobooks.
Added Author Brick, Scott
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