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Title: Heart of Darkness

Subtitle: Classic Edition

Author: Joseph Conrad

Narrator: Frederick Davidson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 58 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-10-07

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 43 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Marlow, the story's narrator, tells his friends of an experience in the British Congo, where he once ran a river steamer for a trading company. He recalls the ivory traders' cruel exploitation of the natives there. Chief among these is a greedy and treacherous European named Kurtz, who has used savagery to obtain semi-divine power over the natives. While Marlow tries to get Kurtz back down the river, Kurtz tries to justify his actions, asserting that he has seen into the very heart of things.

Conrad's novel was the inspiration for Francis Ford Coppola's Vietnam film Apocalypse Now.

Critic Reviews:

"Heart of Darkness has had an influence that goes beyond the specifically literary. This parable of a man's 'heart of darkness', dramatized in the alleged 'Dark Continent' of Africa, transcended its late Victorian era to acquire the stature of one of the great, if troubling, visionary works of Western civilization." (Joyce Carol Oates)

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