01380nam 22002893u 450 991016329170332120230803040937.01-304-15738-5(CKB)3710000000508337(EBL)1669247(EXLCZ)99371000000050833720151123d2013|||| u|| |engur|n|---|||||Heart of Darkness[electronic resource]Sheba Blake Publishing20131 online resource (281 p.)Description based upon print version of record. The story tells of Charles Marlow, an Englishman who took a foreign assignment from a Belgian trading company as a ferry-boat captain in Africa. Although Conrad does not give the name of the river, at the time, Congo Free State, the location of the large and important Congo River was a private colony of Belgium's King Leopold II. Marlow is employed to transport ivory downriver. However, his more pressing assignment is to return Kurtz, another ivory trader, to civilization, in a cover-up. Kurtz has a reputation throughout the region.This symbolic story is a story within a story or frame narrConrad Joseph153570AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910163291703321Heart of darkness15312UNINA