Penguin Essentials Heart of Darkness

von Joseph Conrad

112 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

'Hunters for gold or pursuers of fame, they all had gone out on that stream, bearing the sword, and often the torch, messengers of the might within the land, bearers of a spark from the sacred fire.'Marlow, a seaman, tells of a journey up the Congo. His goal is the troubled European and ivory trader Kurtz. Worshipped and feared by invaders as well as natives, Kurtz has become a godlike figure, his presence pervading the jungle like a thick, obscuring mist. As his boat labours further upstream, closer and closer to Kurtz's extraordinary and terrible domain, so Marlow finds his faith in himself and civilization crumbling.

• Reihe: Penguin Essentials
• Themen: Belletristik Allgemein, nicht nach Genre Allgemein und literarisch
• ISBN: 9780241956809
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 05.04.2012
• Größe: 186 x 113 mm
• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd