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La Petite Maison Electronique
The Heart of Darkness, also known just as Heart of Darkness, is a novella by Joseph Conrad. It was originally published as a three-part series in Blackwood’s magazine, then later printed as a single work in 1903. This story is told as a frame narrative, recounted by the main character to a group of men aboard a ship in the Thames. During the course of the narration, the sky darkens, paralleling the darker nature of the events in the story itself. The main character of Heart of Darkness is Charles Marlow, an English riverboat captain employed by a Belgian trading company in central Africa. His trip to transport ivory down a large river, probably the Congo, takes him through dangerous areas and exposes the dark side of Belgian colonialism.