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Joseph Conrad's novella is narrated by the sailor Charles Marlow, who tells friends aboard a boat anchored on the Thames about his assignment from a Belgian company as a steamer captain in the African interior. Sent up a river the story never names (when Conrad wrote it, the Congo Free State was King Leopold II's private colony), Marlow is charged with finding Kurtz, an ivory trader at a station far upstream. The story is widely read as a critique of European colonialism and as a study of power, morality and the thin line between civilization and savagery. It first ran as a three-part serial in Blackwood's Magazine in 1899 and inspired Apocalypse Now.
It appears in a roundup of every book Barack Obama recommended during his presidency.
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Recommended by Barack Obama (Former USA President)
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