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(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) "Heart of Darkness" grew out of a journey Joseph Conrad took up the Congo River, the verisimilitude that the great novelist thereby brought to his most famous tale everywhere enhances its dense and shattering power. Apparently a sailor's yarn, it is in fact a grim parody of the adventure story, in which the narrator, Marlow, travels deep into the heart of the Congo where he encounters the crazed idealist Kurtz ...

The novella classically evokes the seafaring life at the turn of the century. Captain MacWhirr, of the steamer _Nan-Shan, _ had a physiognomy that, in the order of material appearances, was the exact counterpart of his mind: it presented no marked characteristics of firmness or stupidity, it had no pronounced characteristics whatever, it was simply ordinary, irresponsive, and unruffled. The only thing his aspect might have been said to suggest...

A novella about a voyage up the Congo River into the Congo Free State, in the heart of Africa, as told by the story's narrator Marlow. Marlow tells his story to friends aboard a boat anchored on the River Thames, London, England. This setting provides the frame for Marlow's story of his obsession with the ivory trader Kurtz, which enables Conrad to create a parallel between London and Africa as places of darkness.

A novel of naval life in Napoleonic France. After forty years of piracy on Eastern seas, Citizen Peyrol returns to his native France, a country now ravaged and scarred by revolution and war. Looking for peace in which to end his days, he withdraws to a safe harbor in a remote farmhouse on Escampobar Peninsula, which looks out to the distant Mediterranean, where the lovely Arlette lives with her aunt and the revolutionary Scevola. But the arriv...

Zwei Offiziere der napoleonischen Armee, die einander immer wieder zum Duell fordern, ein chilenischer Bauer mit überdurchschnittlichen Kräften, der aus Liebe zu einer Tochter aus gutem Hause zum Bandenführer im Krieg der Südamerikaner gegen die Spanier wird, ein Arbeiter aus Paris, der im Rausch aufrührerische Reden hält und unter die Anarchisten gerät, ein an Rheuma leidender Graf, der aus Angst vor der Camorra das gesunde Klima Neapels verl...

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