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A Study Guide for Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
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A Study Guide for Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness - Gale
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Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
1899
Introduction
Joseph Conrad’s long short story, Heart of Darkness
(1899), is considered to be his greatest literary achievement, as well as his most controversial. It was first published in Blackwood’s Magazine in 1899, in three monthly installments. In 1902, it was republished in a book entitled Youth: A Narrative, and Two Other Stories.
The story is partly based on Conrad’s personal experiences as the captain of a riverboat on the Congo River, and was immediately interpreted as an indictment of the colonial rule of the Belgian government in the Congo. The story is characterized by a narrative embedded in a narrative; the frame
narrator relates a story told him by the sailor Charlie Marlow, Conrad’s famous character who appears as a storyteller in much of his fiction. Marlow relates his experiences as the captain of a steamboat, sent down the Congo River in the employ of an unnamed ivory company, to retrieve Kurtz, a company manager whose methods
had become
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