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Heart of Darkness: A Signature Performance by Kenneth Branagh
Heart of Darkness A Signature Performance by Kenneth Branagh Author:Joseph Conrad 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, ca... more »pturing 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.« less