Free Audiobook – Heart of Darkness

Heart of Darkness ($0.99 Kindle, $21.83 Audible), by Joseph Conrad, narrated by Seth D. Anderson, is this month’s free audiobook from LearnOutLoud.com (DRM-Free).

I’ve actually linked in a different audio edition from Audible, both because this exact free edition doesn’t exist there, but also because you can get the Dover Thrift Kindle edition linked here, then pick up the Audible Edition, which features a Signature Performance by Kenneth Branagh, for another $0.99. Be sure to follow the link at the bottom of the post for the free edition.

Book Description
Heart of Darkness is a short novel that follows a voyage up the Congo River, deep into the heart of Africa. As narrated by the world-weary Marlow, this emotionally complex narrative focuses on a brilliant ivory trader named Kurtz and what happens to “civilized” men once they lose track of their moral compass.

Central to Conrad’s work is the idea that there is little difference between so-called civilized people and those described as savages; Heart of Darkness raises important questions about imperialism and racism.

About the Audible Edition
Prose that demands to be read aloud requires a special kind of narrator. For the Audible Signature Classics edition of Joseph Conrad’s atmospheric masterpiece, Heart of Darkness, we called upon four-time Academy Award nominee Kenneth Branagh.

Branagh’s performance is riveting because he reads as though he’s telling a ghost story by a campfire, capturing the story’s sense of claustrophobia, while hinting at the storyteller Marlow’s own creeping madness. Heart of Darkness follows Captain Marlow into the colonial Congo where he searches for a mysterious ivory trader, Kurtz, and discovers an evil that will haunt him forever.

With this landmark work, Conrad is credited with bringing the novel into the twentieth century; we think Branagh brings it into the twenty-first.

Stay tuned for more one-of-a-kind performances from actors David Hyde Pierce, Leelee Sobieski, Tim Curry, and more, only from Audible Signature Classics.

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