Heart of Darkness
Conrad, Joseph / Klinkenborg, Verlyn (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
"Heart of Darkness" grew out of a journey Joseph Conrad took up the Congo River, the verisimilitude that the great novelist thereby brought to his most famous tale everywhere enhances its dense and shattering power.
Apparently a sailor's yarn, it is in fact a grim parody of the adventure story, in which the narrator, Marlow, travels deep into the heart of the Congo where he encounters the crazed idealist Kurtz ...