Hunt Hawkins

“On 7 October 1909 E. D.Morel, head of the Congo Reform Association,wrote A. Conan Doyle, a member, that Conrad's story [Heart of Darkness] was the "most powerful thing ever writtenon the subject.”

“Albert J. Guerard has justlycalled the story "one of the great dark meditationsin literature, and one of the purest expressions of a melancholy temperament.”