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Heart of Darkness (1899) is a novella by Polish-English novelist Joseph Conrad about a narrated voyage up the Congo River into the Congo Free State in the Heart of Africa. Charles Marlow, the narrator, tells his story to friends aboard a boat anchored on the River Thames. This setting provides the frame for Marlow's story of his obsession with the successful ivory trader Kurtz. Conrad offers parallels between London ("the greatest town on earth") and Africa as places of darkness. About the Author Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski); 3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. Though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he was a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. Conrad wrote stories and novels, many with a...

A Letter to Momo is a film by Hiroyuki Okimura, same director who directed the film Ghost in the Shell. It is a collaboration work of the production I.G and this one actually remarked its position superbly in the year 2012. The year is always renounced for the most polished animated film, “Wolf Children” by Mamuro Hosoda. This film is specialized in its prospect for making a mixture of the fantastic worlds of the imagination of children with the realistic use of imagery. We all know the Ghibli Film, “My Neighbour Totoro”, and how brilliantly it shows us the compilation of supernatural elements and nature. And in this you will also have a glance upon it; but for your own good, I am going to warn you, before reading my review any further, consider this one as a supreme spoiler upon the plot. So carry on at your own risk. Now without further adieu, let’s start my phenomenon. At first, let us take a little glance upon its main plot – Momo is a young girl who is recovering from h...

Jane Eyre (originally published as Jane Eyre: An Autobiography) is a novel by English writer Charlotte Brontë, published under the pen name "Currer Bell", on 16 October 1847, by Smith, Elder & Co. of London. The first American edition was published the following year by Harper & Brothers of New York. Jane Eyre follows the experiences of its eponymous heroine, including her growth to adulthood and her love for Mr. Rochester, the brooding master of Thornfield Hall. The novel revolutionized prose fiction by being the first to focus on its protagonist's moral and spiritual development through an intimate first-person narrative, where actions and events are colored by a psychological intensity. Charlotte Brontë has been called the "first historian of the private consciousness", and the literary ancestor of writers like Proust and Joyce. The book contains elements of social criticism, with a strong sense of Christian morality at its core, and is considere...