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kev67
05-23-2018, 08:30 AM
Don't think Chinua Achebe would have liked this if he did not like Heart of Darkness.
Danik 2016
05-23-2018, 09:50 AM
Is this an essay or a novel? Can you give us the title, kev?
kev67
05-23-2018, 04:23 PM
It's a novel, well boys' story, set in southern Africa. It's a little bit old-fashioned in its attitudes, if you know what I mean. It reminds me a lot of those 1930s Tarzan films with Johnny Weissmuller.
kev67
05-24-2018, 04:43 PM
The book may not be very progressive racially speaking, but it is surprisingly homoerotic for a C19th boys' adventure book.