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Heart Of Darkness
Title: Heart Of Darkness
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 11112 | Pages: 47.3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Heart Of Darkness
JOSEPH CONRAD: THE AUTHOR AND HIS TIMES
Joseph Conrad didn't set out to become one of the great English
novelists. He didn't set out to be a novelist at all, but a
sailor, and besides, he wasn't English. English was his third
language and he didn't begin learning it until after he was 20
years old!
He was born Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski in 1857, in an area
of Poland that was part of Russia and is …showed first 75 words of 11112 total…
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But he's about to witness something even more terrible. He
steps down into a gloomy grove and discovers a group of dying
Africans. These men aren't legally criminals or slaves either,
though they're bound by "time contracts" to work for set
periods. They certainly don't understand contracts and probably
don't even understand time. These victims are workers who have
become diseased and worn out, maybe because of the unfamiliar
food or the unpleasant surrou
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