# Heart of Darkness and The Congo Diary

- Author: Joseph Conrad
- First published: 1899
- Publisher: Penguin Classics
- This edition: 2007
- ISBN: 9780141441672
- Shelf: Tonight's Classic (one a night, from this pool); World Classics

## Card

A sailor recalls a journey up an African river to find a company agent who has gone deep into the interior.  
The tale is told aboard a boat on the Thames at dusk, and the voice circles and hesitates as if the memory resists being spoken.  
For a night on dark, slow water.  

## About this book

Marlow, a seaman, tells his companions about the time he took command of a river steamer for a European trading company in Africa. Along the way he sees the waste and cruelty of the ivory trade and hears more and more about Kurtz, an agent with a remarkable reputation. The farther upriver he goes, the less certain anything seems. This edition also includes the diary Joseph Conrad kept on his own journey in the Congo in 1890.

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