LEADER 01380nam 22002893u 450 001 9910163291703321 005 20230803040937.0 010 $a1-304-15738-5 035 $a(CKB)3710000000508337 035 $a(EBL)1669247 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000508337 100 $a20151123d2013|||| u|| | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 200 10$aHeart of Darkness$b[electronic resource] 210 $cSheba Blake Publishing$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (281 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 330 $a 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 narr 700 $aConrad$b Joseph$0153570 801 0$bAU-PeEL 801 1$bAU-PeEL 801 2$bAU-PeEL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910163291703321 996 $aHeart of darkness$915312 997 $aUNINA