"We live as we dream—alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully."

The Congo River twists and turns through a tale of insanity and imperialism that forms the core of Heart of Darkness. Hired by the Company as a riverboat captain, Marlow is tasked with finding and bringing back the elusive ivory trader Kurtz, a journey that takes him into the heart of the African continent and leaves him questioning his own humanity.

Joseph Conrad's best-known work brings to light the atrocities of European colonialism and the horrors that imperialism brings to other nations under the guise of civilization. Kurtz's descent into madness shows there's darkness inside every man that not even the trappings of civilization can completely hide.

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