Heart of Darkness - Softcover

Conrad, Joseph

Softcover

ISBN 10: 177356580X ISBN 13: 9781773565804

Verlag: Devoted Publishing, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

Joseph Conrad presents not an adventure, but a slow and unsettling unveiling. Charles Marlow, a riverboat captain, journeys into the interior of the Congo under the employ of a European trading company, tasked with locating the elusive agent Kurtz. Along the way, he encounters not glory, but exploitation, decay, and a system built on illusion. Kurtz-once a man of promise and ideals-has become something far more troubling: a figure of immense influence who has cast off restraint entirely. Yet what disturbs Marlow most is not Kurtz alone, but the recognition that his transformation is not an anomaly, but a revelation. As the river narrows and the wilderness presses in, Marlow is forced to confront an unsettling truth: the darkness he seeks is not confined to distant lands, but exists at the very core of human nature-and the civilization that claims to oppose it.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Devoted Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 177356580X
• ISBN 13: 9781773565804
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 78
• Herausgeber: Uyl Anthony
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: preigu GmbH & Co. KG; mail@preigu.de; ; Lengericher Landstr. 19; Osnabrück; Niedersachsen; 49078; Deutschland