Written by Joseph Conrad - Audio book performed by Scott Brick - Unabridged Fiction - 4 RETAIL EDITION COMPACT DISCS - 4 hours, 43 minutes

Publisher, Tantor Media (November 2002)

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Horror awaits Marlow, a seaman assigned by an ivory company to retrieve a cargo boat and one of its employees, Mr. Kurtz who is stranded in the heart of the Africa, deep in the Belgian Congo. Marlow's journey up the brooding dark river soon becomes a struggle to maintain his own sanity as he witnesses the brutalization of the natives by white traders and discovers the enigmatic Mr. Kurtz. Kurtz, once a genius and the company's most successful representative, has become a savage. His compound is decorated by a row of human heads mounted on spears. The demonic mastermind, liberated from the conventions of European culture, has traded his soul to become ruler of his own horrific dominion.

Acclaimed to be one of the great, albeit disturbing, visionary works of western civilization, Conrad's haunting tale dramatizes the stark realities of Africa in the colonial period. The Heart of Darkness reflects the physical and psychological tragedies that Conrad had experienced while working in the Belgian Congo in 1890 and is the basis of Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now film.

About the Author: Polish-born Josef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, who emerged to become the well known English novelist Joseph Conrad, crystallized his often quoted goal as a writer: "My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel - it is, above all, to make you see. That - and no more, and it is everything."