Heart of Darkness is an 1899 novella by Polish-British novelist Joseph Conrad, in which sailor Charles Marlow tells the story of his assignment as steamer captain for a Belgian company in the African
Heart of Darkness was first published as a three-part serial story in Blackwood's Magazine.
Belgian river station on the Congo River, 1889
The Roi des Belges ('King of the Belgians'—French), the Belgian riverboat Conrad commanded on the upper Congo, 1889
Arthur Hodister [fr] (1847–1892), who Conrad's biographer Norman Sherry has argued served as one of the sources of inspiration for Kurtz
Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British novelist and story writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language and – though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties –
Heart of Darkness
…Heart of Darkness is an 1899 novella by Polish-British novelist Joseph Conrad, in which sailor Charles Marlow tells the story of his assignment as steamer captain for a Belgian company in the African interior. The novel is widely…
Conrad's writer father, Apollo Korzeniowski
Nowy Świat 47, Warsaw, where three-year-old Conrad lived with his parents in 1861
Tadeusz Bobrowski, Conrad's maternal uncle, mentor, benefactor
Otago, the barque captained by Conrad in 1888 and first three months of 1889