Heart of Darkness

This collection includes three significant stories by Joseph Conrad about the clash of man with darkness - both external and internal. In "Heart of Darkness," the journey into the heart of colonial Africa transforms into a terrifying plunge into human cruelty and shows that true darkness lies not in the jungle, but in the heart of the "civilized" West. In "The Secret Sharer," a captain who secretly shelters a fugitive aboard his ship finds himself on the brink of a moral choice: by helping another, he seems to be conversing with his own "shadow" and testing his identity and sense of duty. In "Typhoon," the crew of the ship faces the destructive power of nature, and the captain is forced to take responsibility for the lives of people, remaining true to himself in conditions where nature and circumstances test his will and moral resilience. Read in the original and without cuts about how the sea, storm, and distant shores become a mirror of the human soul, and how the trial by external darkness inevitably leads to an encounter with the darkness within.