Heart of Darkness

Joseph Conrad presents not an adventure, but a slow and unsettling unveiling.

Charles Marlow, a riverboat captain, journeys into the interior of the Congo under the employ of a European trading company, tasked with locating the elusive agent Kurtz. Along the way, he encounters not glory, but exploitation, decay, and a system built on illusion.

Kurtz-once a man of promise and ideals-has become something far more troubling: a figure of immense influence who has cast off restraint entirely. Yet what disturbs Marlow most is not Kurtz alone, but the recognition that his transformation is not an anomaly, but a revelation.

As the river narrows and the wilderness presses in, Marlow is forced to confront an unsettling truth: the darkness he seeks is not confined to distant lands, but exists at the very core of human nature-and the civilization that claims to oppose it.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Devoted Publishing
Published: 03/30/2026
ISBN: 9781773565804
Pages: 78
Weight: 0.26lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.19d
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 8659 / Heart of Darkness
Reading Level: 9 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 10