Amazon Whispersync -- Monthly Offer -- exp 28 Feb
Two Audible versions qualify this month. If you don't own either Audible book, the Kindle link (below) should take you to the free Branagh version. After getting it, click the link for the Davidson version (below). It should also show up as free. Go ahead and get it. It won't affect your ownership of the Branagh version.
FREE -- Heart of Darkness -- Joseph Conrad --> classic adventure
- FREE -- Audible 1 -- Kenneth Branagh version ----> 3.9 hrs
- FREE -- Audible 2 -- Frederick Davidson version --> 4.0 hrs
Quote:
Compelling, exotic, and suspenseful, Heart of Darkness is far more than just an adventure story. The novel explores deep into the dark regions of the hearts and souls of its characters and into the conflicts prevalent in more primitive cultures. It is also a striking picture of the moral deterioration that can result from prolonged isolation.
Marlow, the story's narrator, tells his friends of an experience in the British Congo, where he once ran a river steamer for a trading company. He recalls the ivory traders' cruel exploitation of the natives there. Chief among these is a greedy and treacherous European named Kurtz, who has used savagery to obtain semi-divine power over the natives. While Marlow tries to get Kurtz back down the river, Kurtz tries to justify his actions, asserting that he has seen into the very heart of things.
Conrad's novel was the inspiration for Francis Ford Coppola's Vietnam film Apocalypse Now.
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