Presents Joseph Conrad's short novel in which Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his journey into the African jungle, and his encounter with a cruel white trader named Kurtz.
Presents the classic novel by nineteenth-century British author Joseph Conrad about Marlow, an adventurer and seaman and his physical and psychological journey into Africa where he witnesses the brutality of the natives by white traders.
Marlow comes face to face with the corruption and despair that lies at the heart of human existence when he undertakes a journey on behalf of a Belgian trading company up the Congo River in search of the tormented white ivory trader, Kurtz.
Marlow comes face to face with the corruption and despair that lies at the heart of human existence when he undertakes a journey on behalf of a Belgian trading company up the Congo River in search of the tormented white ivory trader Kurtz.
Twelve-year-olds Anikwa, of the Miami village of Kekionga, and James, of the trading post outside Fort Wayne, find their friendship threatened by the rising fear and tension brought by the War of 1812.
Marlow comes face to face with the corruption and despair that lies at the heart of human existence when he undertakes a journey on behalf of a Belgian trading company up the Congo River in search of the tormented white ivory trader, Kurtz.
At the age of twelve, orphan Will Cooper is sent to work a trading post on the edge of the Cherokee Nation's land, where he spends his life learning about and defending the lives of the Native Americans and desiring the love of Claire Featherstone, the wife of a successful Cherokee landowner and patriarch.
Marlow, a sea captain from an English trading company, embarks on a troubling journey into the Congo jungle to retrieve a renegade trader who has become mad with greed and power over the natives. Also includes "Youth," a short story in which Marlow chronicles his first voyage to the East.
Contains four short stories concerned with illusions, romanticism, and scepticism written in the late nineteenth century by author Joseph Conrad including "Heart of Darkness," the story of a perplexing and horrifying journey into the heart of Africa.