Robert Kimbrough Orden de los libros (cronológico)

Marlow, un agente comercial británico dedicado al negocio de la importación de marfil, se ve obligado a remontar el río Congo en busca de su compañero Kurtz, aquejado de una grave enfermedad. el viaje por la selva africana se convierte en una verdadera od

"The three stories in this volume lay no claim to unity of artistic purpose. The only bond between them is that of the time in which they were written." Thus Conrad, in his Author's Note of 1917, qualifies his later statement that the stories represent the three ages of man--youth, maturity and age. Together on one volume we see that he did not set out to write about three separate periods of life, but rather that he wrote about life from three separate points of view.