Heart of Darkness

A voyage up the Congo River into the Congo Free State, in the heart of Africa

This app contains text and audio ebook of Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad with a powerful reader.

Heart of Darkness (1899) is a novella by Polish-British novelist Joseph Conrad, about a voyage up the Congo River into the Congo Free State, in the heart of Africa, by the story's narrator Charles Marlow. Marlow tells his story to friends aboard a boat anchored on the River Thames, London, England. This setting provides the frame for Marlow's story of his obsession with the ivory trader Kurtz, which enables Conrad to create a parallel between London and Africa as places of darkness.

Central to Conrad's work is the idea that there is little difference between so-called civilised people and those described as savages; Heart of Darkness raises questions about imperialism and racism.

[About Joseph Conrad]

Joseph Conrad (3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. He joined the British merchant marine in 1878, and was granted British citizenship in 1886. Though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he was a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. He wrote stories and novels, many with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of an impassive, inscrutable universe.

[App Features]

1. Text to Speech: Sync text rendering with audio playback. Four speeds options.

2. In-App Dictionary and Wikipedia Search functions

3. Custom Fonts, Text Size, Reading Mode(Vertical/Horizontal), and Theme(Day mode/Night mode)

4. Add Highlights with different Style, and also includes List/Edit/Delete functions

5. Support both Portrait and Landscape screens

6. With "Reading Time Left / Pages Left" information for each chapter