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  2. Heart of Darkness - Wikipedia

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    Robert Silverberg's 1970 novel Downward to the Earth uses themes and characters based on Heart of Darkness set on the alien world of Belzagor. [76] In Josef Škvorecký 's 1984 novel The Engineer of Human Souls , Kurtz is seen as the epitome of exterminatory colonialism and, there and elsewhere, Škvorecký emphasises the importance of Conrad's ...

  3. Kurtz (Heart of Darkness) - Wikipedia

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    Edmund Musgrave Barttelot, who became notorious for his brutality, is one of the historical persons that may have inspired Kurtz's persona.. Kurtz's persona is generally understood to derive from the notoriously brutal history of the so-called Congo Free State, a territory that existed as the private property of King Leopold II from 1885 to 1908 until it was taken over by Belgium and became a ...

  4. Apocalypse Now - Wikipedia

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    Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic war film produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola.The screenplay, co-written by Coppola, John Milius, and Michael Herr, is loosely inspired by the 1899 novella Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, with the setting changed from late 19th-century Congo to the Vietnam War.

  5. Joseph Conrad - Wikipedia

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    At the same time, the choice of a non-English colonial setting freed him from an embarrassing division of loyalty: Almayer's Folly, and later "An Outpost of Progress" (1897, set in a Congo exploited by King Leopold II of Belgium) and Heart of Darkness (1899, likewise set in the Congo), contain bitter reflections on colonialism.

  6. Heart(s) of Darkness: 20 Films Where Love Hurts, Love Scars ...

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    Heart(s) of Darkness: 20 Films Where Love Hurts, Love Scars, Love Wounds & Mars Read Mo ... Ricky Moody’s 1973-set novel The Ice Storm was brilliantly adapted by the coolly observant Ang Lee ...

  7. Heart of Darkness (video game) - Wikipedia

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    Heart of Darkness is a cinematic platformer in the vein of Éric Chahi's previous game Another World. The player controls Andy, who faces various dangers in search of his dog, Whisky. The player progresses through the game's linear storyline by navigating various environments and solving puzzles, all whilst attempting to keep Andy from being ...

  8. “In the Heart of the Sea” True Story: All About the Real ...

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    On Nov. 20, 1820, a whaling ship from Nantucket, Mass., was attacked by a large sperm whale in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. According to the Nantucket Historical Association, the boat was ...

  9. Lord Jim - Wikipedia

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    Marlow is also the narrator of three of Conrad's other works: Heart of Darkness, Youth, and Chance. Jim: Young parson's son who takes to the sea, training for the merchant service as steam ships mix with sailing ships. He dreams of heroic deeds. He is a strong, tall, blond Englishman whose life is the story told by Marlow.