Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad · 1899 · Novel
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It masterfully uses a first-person narrator's retrospective storytelling to frame a journey into the psychological and moral abyss, blurring the lines between the teller and the tale.
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Marlow recounts his journey up the Congo River to a group of men aboard a ship on the Thames. He describes his encounter with the enigmatic ivory trader Kurtz and the moral decay he witnesses.
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