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Heart of Darkness (1899) is a novella by Polish-English novelist Joseph Conrad. It tells the story of Charles Marlow, a sailor who takes on an assignment from a Belgian trading company as a ferry-boat captain in the African interior. The novel is widely regarded as a critique of European colonial rule in Africa, whilst also examining the themes of power dynamics and morality. Although Conrad does not name the river where the narrative takes place, at the time of writing the Congo Free State, the location of the large and economically important Congo River, was a private colony of Belgium's King Leopold II. Marlow is given a text by Kurtz, an ivory trader working on a trading station far up the river, who has "gone native" and is the object of Marlow's expedition.Central to Conrad's work is the idea that there is little difference between "civilised people" and "savages." Heart of Darkness implicitly comments on imperialism and racism. The novella's setting provides the frame for Marlow's story of his obsession with the successful ivory trader Kurtz. Conrad offers parallels between London ("the greatest town on earth") and Africa as places of darkness.Originally issued as a three-part serial story in Blackwood's Magazine to celebrate the thousandth edition of the magazine, Heart of Darkness has been widely re-published and translated into many languages. It provided the inspiration for Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 film Apocalypse Now. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Heart of Darkness 67th on their list of the 100 best novels in English of the twentieth century.

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Jim est un officier épris de rêves héroïques qui traîne un lourd secret : dans le passé le jeune homme a dû abandonner lâchement un navire à la dérive condamnant ainsi les centaines de passagers au tumulte des flots... Son exil en Asie lui permettra-t-il de restaurer sa dignité ? Ou bien restera-t-il pour toujours un poltron, marqué à jamais par cette infamie... ?

The Shadow Line is a classic Joseph Conrad adventure novel about a young sailor quits a ship and ends up, surprisingly, with command of another ship. The story makes interesting commentary on how chance can dictate human life.