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Essay Archive - Summary of The Heart of Darkness
Summary of The Heart of Darkness
The novel opens at sunset on the deck of a cruising yawl, the
Nellie, which at anchor on the Thames. Five men are lying back to rest and
mediate, waiting for the tide to turn. One of them, Charles Marlow, thinks
aloud about ancient England at the time when the conquering Romans came
seeking wealth and power. He pauses, and then begins to tell of a trip to
the Congo he made as a young man. First, he describes how he came to make
the trip. Out of a job and fascinated by Africa for a long time, he
enlisted the help of an n influential ....
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