The novella "Heart of Darkness," by Joseph Conrad, takes place in the early 1900's and is about the European colonization in Africa. The story is told through the perspective of a young man named Marlow. The novel starts when Marlow is sitting on the deck of a sailboat recalling his experiences in A...

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