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Heart of Darkness

Joseph Conrad

4 h 10 min · 6 chapters · read by Kristin LeMoine

On a boat on the Thames, the sailor Marlow tells how he once took a steamer up the Congo River for a Belgian ivory company, in search of Kurtz, its most successful agent, and what he found there. Joseph Conrad's short novel about colonial greed and what it does to people, in about an afternoon.

4 h 10 min

at normal speed

3 h 20 min

at 1.25×

2 h 47 min

at 1.5×

Chapters

1. Chapter 1 Part 144:10
2. Chapter 1 Part 247:34
3. Chapter 2 Part 136:53
4. Chapter 2 Part 242:35
5. Chapter 3 Part 130:21
6. Chapter 3 Part 248:39

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