Heart of Darkness [Lit.]
The title of a novel (1902) by Joseph Conrad, in which the narrator Marlow journeys by river deep into the jungle of the Belgian Congo in search of the ivory trader Mr Kurtz. He finds that the once civilized and compassionate Kurtz has descended into savagery.... ...
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