文档介绍：Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
作者简介
康拉德( ),小说家,生于乌克兰
别尔季切夫,父母都是波兰人。年加入英国商船队,成为英国公
民。曾远涉重洋到过世界各地,年结婚,定居在肯特郡阿什福
德。他的第一部长篇小说是《阿尔马耶的蠢事》( ’
)。他最著名的作品有《水仙号上的黑家伙》(
)、《吉姆老爷》( ),《诺斯
特罗莫》( )、《特务》( )、
《在西方人的心目中》( )和《机会》
( )。他还写了许多短篇小说;中篇小说《昧心》
()预测了世纪许多大事的主题及后果。
他的小说是改编电影和电视剧的最受喜爱的题材。
CONTENTS
Part One .............................................................................................1
Part Two .........................................................................................29
Part Three ........................................................................................52
Heart of Darkness 1
Part One
The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor with- out a flutter of the
sails, and was at rest. The flood had made, the wind was nearly calm, and
being bound down the river, the only thing for it was e to and wait
for the turn of the tide.
The sea-reach of the Thames stretched before us like the beginning of an
interminable waterway. In the offing the sea and the sky were welded to-
gether without a joint, and in the luminous space the tanned sails of the
barges drifting up with the tide seemed to stand still in red clusters of can-
vas sharply peaked, with gleams of varnished sprits. A haze rested on the
low shores that ran out to sea in vanishing flatness. The air was dark above
Gravesend, and farther back still seemed condensed into a mournful gloom,
brooding mo- tionless over the biggest, and the greatest, town on earth.
The Director panies was our captain and our host. We four affec-
tionately watched his back as he stood in the bows looking to seaward. On
the whole river there was nothing that looked half so nautical. He resembled
a pilot, which to a seaman is trustworthiness personified. It was difficult to
realize his work was not out there in the luminous estuary, but behind him,
within the brooding gloom.
Between us there was, as I have already said some- where, the bond of
the sea. Besides hold