River steamboat captain Charles Marlow has set forth on the Congo in Africa to find the enigmatic European trader Mr. Kurtz. Preceded by his reputation as a brilliant emissary of progress, Kurtz has now established himself as a god...
Conrad used his experience within the British empire to write novels and stories that often used the sea and navy as a setting, juxtaposing the individual human spirit with the collective duty and honor of the British navy.
This is Joseph Conrad’s first novel and it sets the style that he adopts throughout his literary life. He describes the unravelling of flawed characters against a backdrop of dramatic proportions. Conrad’s powers of description are remarkable with the crisis in...
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