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Conrad, Joseph

 
9781551110653: Heart of Darkness (Broadview Literary Texts)
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ISBN 10: 1551110652 ISBN 13: 9781551110653
Editorial: Broadview Press Ltd, 1995

Sinopsis

Book by Conrad Joseph Goonetilleke D C R A

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Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness' is widely regarded as one of the most significant works of English literature and part of the Western canon. The story was the inspiration for Francis Ford Coppola's 'Apocalypse Now'. This highly symbolic story is actually a story within a story, or frame narrative. It follows Marlow as he recounts, from dusk through to late night, his adventure into the Congo to a group of men aboard a ship anchored in the Thames Estuary. The story details an incident when Marlow, an Englishman, took a foreign assignment as a ferry-boat captain, employed by a Belgian trading company. Although the river is never specifically named, readers may assume it is the Congo River, in the Congo Free State, a private colony of King Leopold II. Marlow is employed to transport ivory downriver; however, his more pressing assignment is to return Kurtz, another ivory trader, to civilization in a cover up.

Biografía del autor

Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) was a Polish-born British novelist, writing in English, while living in England. Many critics regard him as one of the greatest novelists in the English language, despite his not having learned to speak English fluently until he was in his twenties (and then always with a strong Polish accent). He became a naturalized British subject in 1886. He wrote stories and novels, predominantly with a nautical setting, that depicted the heroism of faith before the imperatives of duty, social responsibility and honor.

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Editorial
Broadview Press Ltd
Año de publicación
1995
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1551110652
ISBN 13 
9781551110653
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
245
Editor
Goonetilleke D. C. R. A.
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