Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
<iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=englishl-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=B003L77GRO&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="padding-top: 5px; width: 131px; height: 245px; padding-right: 10px;" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" align="left" frameborder="0"> Image via Wikipedia “In Heart of Darkness one major theme, if not the ruling theme, is that civilization depends for its conquest of the earth on a combination of lies and forgetfulness.”(Eloise Knapp Hay) Conrad’s works, Heart of Darkness in particular, provide a bridge between Victorian values and the ideals of modernism. Like their Victorian predecessors, these novels rely on traditional ideas of heroism, which are nevertheless under constant attack in a changing world and in places far from Engla