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This book narrates the story of Charles Marlow’s life. He is an ivory transporter down the Congo River in Central Africa. The book tells us about his travels around Central Africa and the harsh realities of the natives. Summary of the Book Marlow experiences a lot during his journey to the heart of Africa. He faces many threatening encounters along the way. This book gives us a look into realities of imperialism and the evils of the human psyche. The story is an exploration of what people consider the barbarian society, as opposed to the civilized society. It also gives us a view of the attitudes towards colonialism and imperialism that were a part of European imperialism. About Joseph Conrad Joseph Conrad was a Polish writer who wrote in English after settling in England. He got his English nationality in 1886, but has always considered himself to be a Pole. He has been regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English, though he was not able to speak the language fluently until his twenties. His stories and novels often have a nautical setting and depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of an indifferent universe. Joseph Conrad was a master prose stylist and is known to have brought a non-English tragic sensibility into English literature.