Book
Heart of Darkness
- Published
- 1899
- Genre
- Classics
- Publisher
- Conaculta
- Pages
- 188
- Words
- 53285
- URL
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4900.Heart_of_Darkness?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_17
Reading measures
- Accelerated Reader level
- 9.0
- AR interest level
- UG — upper grades, 9–12
- Lexile
- 950L
- Suggested reading age
- ages 14–18
- Ambleside year
- Year 11 onwards · ages 16–19
An Ambleside year is a year of the Ambleside Online programme, not a reader's age. Year 0 is its first year, and a book used over several years shows the span. The ages beside it are that band offered two grades up and none down, which is how we offer a band; they are a placement, not a reading measure.
Heart of Darkness, a novel by Joseph Conrad, was originally a three-part series in Blackwood's Magazine in 1899. It is a story within a story, following a character named Charlie Marlow, who recounts his adventure to a group of men onboard an anchored ship. The story told is of his early life as a ferry boat captain. Although his job was to transport ivory downriver, Charlie develops an interest in investing an ivory procurement agent, Kurtz, who is employed by the government. Preceded by his reputation as a brilliant emissary of progress, Kurtz has now established himself as a god among the natives in “one of the darkest places on earth.” Marlow suspects something else of Kurtz: he has gone mad.
Collections
St. John's College · 4
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9786074555721
- ISBN-10
- 6074555729
Tags
BoatsContinents-AfricaFictionSt. John's CollegeTransportation