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Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (w/ Active Table of Contents and Chapter Navigation) [KINDLE EDITION] (Kindle Edition)

October 30th, 2010

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (w/ Active Table of Contents and Chapter Navigation) [KINDLE EDITION]

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Heart of Darkness is a novella written by Joseph Conrad. Before its 1902 publication, it appeared as a three-part series (1899) in Blackwood’s Magazine. It is widely regarded as a significant work of English literature and part of the Western canon.

The story details an incident when Marlow, an Englishman, took a foreign assignment as a ferry-boat captain, employed by a Belgian trading company. Although the river is never specifically named, readers may assume it is the Congo River, in the Congo Free State, a private colony of King Leopold II. Marlow is employed to transport ivory downriver; however, his more pressing assignment is to return Kurtz, another ivory trader, to civilization in a cover up. Kurtz has a reputation throughout the region.

This very symbolic story is actually a story within a story, or frame narrative. It follows Marlow as he recounts, from dusk through to late night, his adventure into the Congo to a group of men aboard a ship anchored in the Thames Estuary. It should be noted from a structuralist point of view that Marlow is also the name of a town situated on the Thames further upstream from London. (Description obtained from Wikipedia)


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Defying the Darkness (erotica) (vampire) (kindle) (Kindle Edition)

August 20th, 2010

Defying the Darkness (erotica) (vampire) (kindle)

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Hayden Babic is an ancient creature seeking the one woman that will end his loneliness. After centuries of searching, he finds Helena. Helena is everything Hayden’s ever dreamed of. But she’s not convinced that she needs a man to protect her. Her defiant nature has Hayden doing things he never thought would be necessary. He is forced to take matters into his own hands. She needs to be protected and at the same time bent to his will.
Vampires and their human cousins, the half breeds, are dying to get their claws into her. She is a match for their species and to them that means a promise of erotic sexual bliss .
Hayden isn’t about to share his prize. He will do whatever it takes to keeps her safe.
She refuses to submit to his claim on her. It is Helena’s intent to make his life a living hell, but Hayden has ways of forcing her into submission.

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This book is considered erotica writing. The author uses language and situations that some people may find offensive.


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Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (bargain edition typeset for the Kindle) (Kindle Edition)

June 3rd, 2010

Conrad's Heart of Darkness (bargain edition typeset for the Kindle)

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Upriver, into evil. The great novel and the basis for the movie Apocalypse Now! is Conrad’s best-known treatment of European men losing themselves in a foreign land.


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Heart of Darkness (mobi) (Kindle Edition)

November 29th, 2009

Heart of Darkness (mobi)

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Novella by Joseph Conrad, first published in 1902 with the story “Youth” and thereafter published separately. The story reflects the physical and psychological shock Conrad himself experienced in 1890, when he worked briefly in the Belgian Congo. The narrator, Marlow, describes a journey he took on an African river. Assigned by an ivory company to take command of a cargo boat stranded in the interior, Marlow makes his way through the treacherous forest, witnessing the brutalization of the natives by white traders and hearing tantalizing stories of a Mr. Kurtz, the company’s most successful representative. He reaches Kurtz’s compound in a remote outpost only to see a row of human heads mounted on poles. In this alien context, unbound by the strictures of his own culture, Kurtz has exchanged his soul for a bloody sovereignty, but a mortal illness is bringing his reign of terror to a close. As Marlow transports him downriver, Kurtz delivers an arrogant and empty explanation of his deeds as a visionary quest. To the narrator Kurtz’s dying words, “The horror! The horror!” represent despair at the encounter with human depravity–the heart of darkness. — The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature




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This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This book features the table of contents linked to every chapter. The book was designed for optimal navigation on the Kindle, PDA, Smartphone, and other electronic readers. It is formatted to display on all electronic devices including the Kindle, Smartphones and other Mobile Devices with a small display.

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Heart of Darkness is a novella written by Polish-born writer Joseph Conrad (born J?zef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski). Before its 1902 publication, it appeared as a three-part series (1899) in Blackwood’s Magazine. It is widely regarded as a significant work of English literature and part of the Western canon.

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Heart of Darkness (Kindle Edition)

November 28th, 2009

Heart of Darkness

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Novella by Joseph Conrad, first published in 1902 with the story “Youth” and thereafter published separately. The story reflects the physical and psychological shock Conrad himself experienced in 1890, when he worked briefly in the Belgian Congo. The narrator, Marlow, describes a journey he took on an African river. Assigned by an ivory company to take command of a cargo boat stranded in the interior, Marlow makes his way through the treacherous forest, witnessing the brutalization of the natives by white traders and hearing tantalizing stories of a Mr. Kurtz, the company’s most successful representative. He reaches Kurtz’s compound in a remote outpost only to see a row of human heads mounted on poles. In this alien context, unbound by the strictures of his own culture, Kurtz has exchanged his soul for a bloody sovereignty, but a mortal illness is bringing his reign of terror to a close. As Marlow transports him downriver, Kurtz delivers an arrogant and empty explanation of his deeds as a visionary quest. To the narrator Kurtz’s dying words, “The horror! The horror!” represent despair at the encounter with human depravity–the heart of darkness. — The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature




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