Heart of Darkness
Author: Joseph Conrad
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Languages: English, RU
Genre: Adventure, Historical, Mystery
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A seaman recounts his voyage up an African river to relieve Kurtz, a brilliant ivory agent who has become a god to the people of the interior.
Characters
- Charlie Marlow — Narrator; riverboat captain: A contemplative English seaman who pilots a steamer up the Congo.
- Mr. Kurtz — Chief of the Inner Station; ivory agent: A gifted, eloquent ivory trader revered by the forest tribes.
- The Manager — Manager of the Central Station: A hollow, robustly healthy administrator who inspires unease but no respect.
- The Russian (the harlequin) — Wandering trader; Kurtz's disciple: A young, patch-clothed adventurer devoted to Kurtz.
- The Intended — Kurtz's fiancée in Europe: Kurtz's mourning betrothed, faithful to his memory.
- The Brickmaker — Agent at the Central Station: The manager's smooth-talking spy who makes no bricks.
- The Chief Accountant — Company accountant at the Outer Station: An immaculately dressed clerk keeping the books amid the wilderness.
- Fresleven — Marlow's predecessor; Danish captain: The gentle Dane whose death left the captain's post open.