{"product_id":"heart-of-darkness-book-joseph-conrad-9781503275928","title":"Heart of Darkness","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":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49520708845841,"sku":"GOR006624803","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49754865795345,"sku":"CIN1503275922G","price":3.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":49931853267217,"sku":"CIN1503275922A","price":3.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50002320294161,"sku":"CIN1503275922VG","price":3.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51596667322641,"sku":"GOR008200701","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ LIKE_NEW \/ SBYB","offer_id":52993002307857,"sku":"CIN1503275922LN","price":4.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1503275922.jpg?v=1751431256","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/heart-of-darkness-book-joseph-conrad-9781503275928","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}