Journey

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

A man travels upriver to retrieve a colleague and finds out exactly how thin civilisation’s varnish really is. It is short, and every reader leaves it heavier than when they began. I would not recommend it as a first visit to this section.

The librarian

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Reading time

About 2 hr 35 min

Where to find it

On the Journey shelves

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #219. In the public domain in the United States.