TY - SOUND AU - Conrad,Joseph AU - Case,David AU - TI - Heart of darkness SN - 9781433203824 AV - PR6005 PY - 1993/// CY - [Ashland, Oregon] PB - Blackstone Audio KW - Europeans KW - Africa KW - Fiction KW - Trading posts KW - Degeneration KW - Imperialism KW - Suffering KW - Psychological fiction N1 - Unabridged; Compact discs; Duration: 4:00:00; "Tracks every 3 minutes for easy bookmarking"--Container; "Originally published in 1902"--Container; 2 N2 - Marlow, the story's narrator, tells his friends of an experience in the British Congo where he once ran a river steamer for a trading company. He tells of the ivory traders' cruel exploitation of the natives there. Chief among these is a greedy and treacherous European named Kurtz, a man who has used savagery to obtain semi-divine power over the natives. While Marlow tries to get Kurtz back down the river, Kurtz tries to justify his actions and motions, asserting that he has seen into the very heart of things ER -