A nice edition enhanced with 16 illustrations and photographs.
Heart of Darkness is a 1899 novella by 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 successful ivory trader Kurtz.
Conrad offers parallels between London.