Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness
Book for March 2021
Group 3

was first published in 1899 as a three-part serial story in Blackwood's Magazine. Aboard a boat anchored on the River Thames the narrator, Charles Marlow, tells his fellow sailors how he became captain of a river steamboat for an ivory trading company on a voyage up the Congo River into the Congo Free State in the Heart of Africa.

Central to Conrad's work is the idea that there is little difference between "civilised people" and those described as "savages." The book provided the inspiration for Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 film Apocalypse Now.

About the Author
Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, 3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Polish-British writer. Though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he was a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. Conrad is considered an early modernist though his works contain elements of 19th-century realism. He wrote stories and novels, many with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of what he saw as an impassive, inscrutable universe.