A fascinating exploration into a subject – Imperialism – not often talked of. Your reviewer was particularly impressed at the brevity of the novel, in an age of 300 and 400 page works, this is a refreshingly short novel. The brevity of this novel perhaps highlights a lack of plot, this is untrue. The story is engrossing. Particularly enjoyable are the elegant and long descriptions of nature which span paragraphs or sometimes pages.
Unfortunately, the lack of education or perhaps focus of your reviewer left him feeling that he failed to understand a deeper element of the novel, that of the search for Kurtz, or perhaps the essence of man. This novel deserves a re-read, easy due to its concise nature, but even from a first, uneducated glance the beautiful prose makes this novel more than worthwhile.