Heart of Darkness is a novella written by Joseph Conrad. It is widely regarded as a significant
work of English literature and part of the Western canon. 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. Heart of Darkness exposes the myth behind colonization while exploring the
three levels of darkness that the protagonist, Marlow, encounters--the darkness of the Congo
wilderne ...