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It was as if the sea, breaking down the wall protecting all the homes of the town, had sent a wave over her headOne of Conrads most powerful, gripping storiesIntroducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguins 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th century Ca...

Nostromo, published in 1904, is one of Conrads finest works. Nostromo -- though one hundred years old -- says as much about todays Latin America as any of the finest recent accounts of that regions turbulent political life. Insistently dramatic in its storytelling, spectacular in its recreation of the subtropical landscape, this picture of an insurrectionary society and the opportunities it provides for moral corruption gleams on every page with its authors dry, undeceived, impeccable intelligen...

The silence of the jungle is broken only by the ominous sound of drumming. Life on the river is brutal and unknown threats lurk in the darkness. Marlows mission to captain a steamer upriver into the dense interior leads him into conflict with the others who haunt the forest. But his decision to hunt down the mysterious Mr Kurtz, an ivory trader who is the subject of sinister rumours, leads him into more than just physical peril.

The Penguin English Library Edition of Heart of Darkness by Joseph ConradThe mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. What was there after all? Joy, fear, sorrow, devotion, rage - who can tell? - but truth - truth stripped of its cloak of time. Let the fool gape and shudder - the man knows, and can look on without a winkMarlow, a seaman, tells of a journey up the Congo. His goal is the troubled European and ivory trader Kurtz. Wors...