Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad - **In Person**

• Join us in person for the book discussion and after-meeting social hour.
• The number of in-person spots is limited. To request a spot, please see details below.
• Click to attend online instead.

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad - Led by Leigh

Heart of Darkness is a novella written by Joseph Conrad. It is widely regarded as a significant work of English literature and part of the Western canon. The story tells of Charles Marlow, an Englishman who took a foreign assignment from a Belgian trading company as a ferry-boat captain in Africa. Heart of Darkness exposes the myth behind colonization while exploring the three levels of darkness that the protagonist, Marlow, encounters--the darkness of the Congo wilderness, the darkness of the European's cruel treatment of the natives, and the unfathomable darkness within every human being for committing heinous acts of evil. Although Conrad does not give the name of the river, at the time of writing the Congo Free State, the location of the large and important Congo River, was a private colony of Belgium's King Leopold II. Marlow is employed to transport ivory downriver. However, his more pressing assignment is to return Kurtz, another ivory trader, to civilization, in a cover-up. Kurtz has a reputation throughout the region. This symbolic story is a story within a story or frame narrative. It follows Marlow as he recounts from dusk through to late night, to a group of men aboard a ship anchored in the Thames Estuary his Congolese adventure. The passage of time and the darkening sky during the fictitious narrative-within-the-narrative parallel the atmosphere of the story.

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Instructions for In-Person Attendance

• This is a "hybrid" meeting, with some participants in-person and others remote on Zoom. This RSVP is for meeting in person.
• The number of in-person spots is limited, and members who regularly attend our events have priority.
• The number of "Spots Left" will appear zero. Please click "Attend" to join the waitlist, and we will confirm your reservation in a following message.
• After your spot is confirmed, directions to the meeting room will be provided through email and Meetup.com messages.
• While on the waitlist you are welcome to register also for the online session

Don't Be a No-Show! If your plans change, please do cancel your in-person RSVP or Wait List request. Allow someone else to take your place.

Parking
There is a mixture of free and metered parking on streets around the venue. There is also a large parking garage (1st 2 hours free) at Kelvin at Amherst.

After Meeting Socializing
After the meeting ends, you are invited to join us at a near-by restaurant for refreshments and socializing.