Black Cat Reading and Training Step 5 Heart of Darkness

Black Cat Reading and Training is a 6-level series of richly illustrated readers suitable for older teenagers, young adults and adults. It offers original stories and retold classics, both fiction and non-fiction. Each title integrates a story with four-skills activities written in the style of Cambridge ESOL examinations, as well as informative background information to provide students with an enjoyable and rewarding, all-in-one reading experience. Audio recordings are available for all titles.

Genre: Human interest
Marlow, a merchant sailor, travels through colonial Africa. He makes a perilous journey by steamboat to rescue Kurtz, an agent, who is seriously ill. He arrives at Kurtz's station to find that the agent has taken control of the whole area. In his complete isolation from civilised society Kurtz has instituted a brutal system of human sacrifice and magic to enthral the natives.
Dossiers:
Conrad and the Colonial Experience
and others

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