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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.

Presents a history of the nineteenth-century Taiping Rebellion in China, looking at how it began in the provinces with the ethnic anger of millions of Chinese against their Manchu rulers and the direction the civil war took after Britain and the United States stepped into support the Manchus.

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.

Contains "Heart of Darkness" in which an English trading company sends a sea captain to find a renegade trader who has become mad with greed and power over the natives in the Congo; and includes three short stories, an introduction to author, questions, and suggestions for further reading.

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.

A mysterious drifter named Axel Heyst rescues a troubled girl from a seedy tropical hotel and takes her home to Samburan, his own island in the East Indies, unaware they are being followed by three intruders who will bring horror, death, and a strange, haunting victory.