Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

 Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

 I read The  Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad in free time.I chose this book because I am interested in historical documents, and this story is largely based on facts.

Dark allegory describes the narrator's journey up the Congo River and his meeting with, and fascination by, Mr. Kurtz, a mysterious personage who dominates the unruly inhabitants of the region. Masterly blend of adventure, character development and psychological . Considered by many Conrad's finest story.

The novella centres on the efforts of Marlow, Conrad's alter ego, to travel up an unnamed African river on behalf of his employer in order to bring back a rogue ivory trader, Mr Kurtz. 

The further upstream Marlow gets, the more intense the sense of impending danger, with cryptic warnings and a bloody ambush ratcheting up the tension. When Marlow finally reaches Kurtz's camp, he discovers a scene of unimaginable depravity. The dying Kurtz is taken aboard the boat but he does not survive the journey back downstream. With Marlow present, his chilling last words are "The horror! The horror!"

I think it is worth reading this book because it contains many interesting facts, interestingly described adventures.  As well as being an extraordinary story, Heart of Darkness contains some of the most fantastic us of language in English literature. In Heart of Darkness, we  see a style that is remarkably poetic for a prose work. More than a novel, the work is like an extended symbolic poem, affecting the reader with the breadths of its ideas as well as the beauty of its words.