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Heart of Darkness Study Guide

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by Joseph Conrad
About 62 pages (18,679 words)
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Chapter I

Literally speaking, the action of Heart of Darkness is simply the act of storytelling aboard a ship on the river Thames around the turn of the twentieth century. An unnamed narrator, along with four other men, is aboard the anchored Nellie waiting for the tide to turn. They trade sea stories to pass the time. One of these men is Charlie Marlow, whose

story will itself be the primary narrative of Heart of Darkness. Before Marlow begins his tale, however, the unnamed narrator muses to himself on a history of exploration and conquest which also originated on the Thames, the waterway connecting London to

the sea. The narrator mentions Sir FrancIs Drake and his ship the Golden Hind, which travelled around the globe at the end of the sixteenth century,.....

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