Download or read book Heart of Darkness Illustrated written by Joseph Conrad and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-19 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heart of Darkness (1899) is a novella by Polish-British novelist Joseph Conrad about a narrated voyage up the Congo River into the Congo Free State in the Heart of Africa.Charles Marlow, the narrator, tells his story to friends aboard a boat anchored on the River Thames. This setting provides the frame for Marlow's story of his obsession with the ivory trader Kurtz, which enables Conrad to create a parallel between what Conrad calls "the greatest town on earth", London, and Africa as places of darkness.