Heart of Darkness
A story told on a becalmed boat in the Thames about a river on the other side of the world.
- Listening time
- about 4 h 06 min
- Length
- 37,991 words
- First published
- 1899
- Public domain
- the author died in 1924
- Edition
- Edition and cover by Standard Ebooks, released CC0
- Download in the app
- 216 KB stored on your device
- Language
- English
- Shelf
- Under Four Hours
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How it begins.
The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest. The flood had made, the wind was nearly calm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for it was to come to and wait for the turn of the tide. The sea-reach of the Thames stretched before us like the beginning of an interminable waterway. In the offing the sea and the sky were welded together without a joint, and in the luminous space the tanned sails of the barges drifting up with the tide seemed to stand still in red clusters of canvas sharply peaked, with gleams of varnished sprits.
Heart of Darkness · Joseph Conrad · 1899
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