Heart of Darkness
byJoseph Conrad
CompletedAdventure,DramaPublic domain
Public-domain text, with thanks to Standard Ebooks and other free-text projects.
A steamboat captain journeys up the Congo in search of a celebrated ivory trader whose reputation has curdled into rumor. Told by a sailor waiting out the tide on the Thames, it is a story about what empire does to the men who carry it out.
