{"product_id":"african-american-health-book-book-valiere-alcena-9781559722148","title":"The African-American Health Book","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow Conrad's imperial horror story Heart of Darkness resonates with our globalised times. The conversation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eHeart of Darkness\u003c\/b\u003e is a short novel by Polish novelist \u003cb\u003eJoseph Conrad\u003c\/b\u003e, written as a frame narrative, about \u003cem\u003eCharles Marlow's\u003c\/em\u003e experience as an ivory transporter down the \u003cem\u003eCongo River\u003c\/em\u003e in \u003cem\u003eCentral Africa\u003c\/em\u003e. The river is a mighty big river, that you could see on the map, resembling an immense snake uncoiled, with its head in the sea, its body at rest curving afar over a vast country, and its tail lost in the depths of the land.\u003cbr\u003eIn the course of his travel in \u003cem\u003ecentral Africa, \u003cem\u003eMarlow becomes obsessed with \u003cem\u003eMr. Kurtz\u003c\/em\u003e. The story is a complex exploration of the attitudes people hold on what constitutes a barbarian versus a civilized societyand the attitudes on \u003cem\u003ecolonialism\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eracism\u003c\/em\u003e that were part and parcel of \u003cem\u003eEuropean imperialism\u003c\/em\u003e. Originally published as a three-part serial story, in Blackwood's Magazine, the novella \u003cb\u003eHeart of Darkness\u003c\/b\u003e has been variously published and translated into many languages. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked \u003cb\u003eHeart of Darkness\u003c\/b\u003e as the sixty-seventh of the hundred \u003cem\u003ebest novels\u003c\/em\u003e in English of the \u003cem\u003etwentieth century\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eJoseph Conrad\u003c\/b\u003e 3 December 1857 - 3 August 1924) was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. Though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he was a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. \u003cb\u003eConrad\u003c\/b\u003e wrote \u003cem\u003estories\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003enovels\u003c\/em\u003e, many with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of what he saw as an impassive, inscrutable universe.\u003cb\u003eConrad\u003c\/b\u003e is considered an early modernist, though his works contain elements of 19th-century realism. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters, as in \u003cb\u003eLord Jim\u003c\/b\u003e, for example, have influenced numerous authors, and many films have been adapted from, or inspired by, his works. Numerous writers and critics have commented that \u003cb\u003eConrad's\u003c\/b\u003e fictional works, written largely in the first two decades of the \u003cem\u003e20th century\u003c\/em\u003e, seem to have anticipated later world events.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe book was Zeitgeist-y enough to provide the epigraph for his epoch-defining poem. T.S. Eliot\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50099809616145,"sku":"CIN1559722142G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1559722142.jpg?v=1751374812","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/african-american-health-book-book-valiere-alcena-9781559722148","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}