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Heart of Darkness: An English trading company entrusts "I" (Charles Marlow) to help find its trading agent Mr. Kurtz in the African jungle. When "I" find him, he has gone mad and dies soon. Conrad used first person narrative to depict the adventure meanwhile shows how these colony settlers feel in Africa. Heart of darkness points to the interior of Africa continent, but also to the darkness of people's corrupted hearts. (黑暗之心:本书描写一家英国贸易公司委托小说中的"我"到非洲丛林寻找该公司失踪的贸易代表库尔茨,当找到时,发现其已经变疯并很快死去。作者借寻找的经历描写了殖民者在非洲大陆的感受。黑暗之心表面上指非洲大陆的腹地,同时也比喻了在这片土地上受到腐蚀的人心的黑暗。)