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ID: 211403
Title: Heart of Darkness
Author: Joseph Conrad
Narrator: David Rintoul
Format: Unabridged
Length: 04:08:00
Language: English
Release date: 04-01-14
Publisher: Creative Content LTD
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics
Summary:
Joseph Conrads searing tale of one of the strangest and most memorable journeys ever taken
Quite simply the scariest book ever written, this is a searing tale of one of the strangest and most memorable journeys ever undertaken to the heart of a geographical and psychological wilderness from which no-one returns unscarred. For this isnt simply a journey up an uncharted river into a geographical wilderness; rather, its a trip deep into our collective subconscious.
This story about what happens when so-called civilized human beings go off the rails - was the inspiration for Francis Ford Coppolas movie Apocalypse Now.
Conrad himself had undertaken such a river journey as a ships captain back in 1889 when he was in his early 30s and before he took to writing full time. Back then, the Congo Free State, as this area of Africa was known, was a Belgian colony under the personal control of King Leopold II.
Atrocities were commonplace, to the point where the international community finally had to sit up and take notice; in a report published in 1904, over 3 million people were said to have died as a direct result of European intervention in the area.
It has long been argued whether Heart of Darkness, which first appeared in 1902, was in any way influential in bringing Leopolds violent regime to the publics attention; but whether or not, it remains a searing indictment of human rapacity and depravity.
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