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Original Title: TIL Joseph Conrad’s ‘Heart of Darkness’ was published to little fanfare and was nearly forgotten. However by the 1960s it had had been analysed more than any other work of literature that is studied in universities. It would serve as the basis for the movie ‘Apocalypse Now’, revered as a classic