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Heart of Darkness: A Signature Performance by Kenneth Branagh
- Narrated by: Kenneth Branagh
- Length: 3 hrs and 49 mins
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Heart of Darkness: A Signature Performance by Kenneth Branagh
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Publisher's Summary
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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- Richard Tomlin
- 2019-03-19
Branagh is brilliant.
Branagh's mastery of vocal performance brings each character uniquely to life. Clearly the best option.
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- Anonymous User
- 2022-08-16
Astounding
Listening to this title was a blast from the past. I had forgotten how much this book impacted my early teen mind when I first read it. “We live as we dream…alone”
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- Lewis & Marina Hrytzak
- 2022-06-26
Kenneth Branagh is brilliant!
The highlight for me is Branagh's brilliant performance. It is perfection. I was, however, troubled by the racism in the story. Although this is, of course, historically accurate for the times (and even now in 2022), it still takes my breath away and is difficult to hear. Conrad's writing is powerful. I highly recommend this version due to Branagh's reading. Do I recommend Heart of Darkness? Definitely. What it says about human nature is invaluable. It is a classic for a reason.
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- Olivier Krief
- 2023-08-14
Fantastic
What a great novel!!! Kenneth Branagh is fantastic. So impressive and wonderfull experience. One of the greatest book of the early XX century.
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- Viay Tharayil
- 2018-09-19
This book is a work of art in literature...
#Audible1. Conrad’s insights and ability to convey meaning and depth of human conquest from the perspective of hunter and the hunted...invokes within us, a view into darkness of our soul. It is only through the enlightenment through the medium of literature are we left enriched and placed in a mode of reflection....the Congo has never really recovered from the blanket of exploitation.
The narrator Kenneth Branagh takes us through this journey - the way Conrad may have envisioned this story is told...
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- Ashton
- 2020-02-14
incredible performance
story and performance are incredible. I have put this as one of my favorite audiobooks
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- Matt Semrau
- 2020-10-08
Branagh's performance perfectly suits HoD
Honestly it feels like this was the way HoD was meant to be experienced! Brannagh's dramatic reading perfectly fits the framed narrative of telling a story.
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- Nina Hewitt
- 2020-12-19
perfect
perfect narration and the book itself is amazing. beautifully written and gripping. the narrator does an amazing job.
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- Jan B
- 2022-07-10
outstanding Narration .
The quality of the narration pulled me right into this book. I had been meaning to read it since the movie Apocalypse Now back in the '80s. not the kind of male-centric material I normally like, but Branagj's narration made all of these characters both sympathetic and tragic.
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- ThoughtfulListener
- 2019-11-08
The dark side of man's desires
What will man do for an idea? He can rationalize many evils for the sake of a "higher" goal. Those who do not not carry the light with them inevitably get lost in the darkness.
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