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Heart of Darkness
     
Heart of Darkness
(1902) a book by Joseph Conrad in which the main character, Marlow, travels on a river through Africa until he meets Kurtz, an educated white man who has stopped accepting Western values and has become the violent, powerful ruler of an African community
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