{"product_id":"the-heart-of-darkness-used-paperback-joseph-conrad","title":"The Heart of Darkness (Used Paperback) - Joseph Conrad","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWith an Introduction by Caryl Phillips\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCommentary by H.L. Mencken, E.M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, Bertrand Russell, Lionel Trilling, Chiua Achebe, and Philip Gourevitch\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Heart of Darkness,\" which appeared at the very beginning of our century, was a Cassandra cry announcing the end of Victorian Europe, on the verge of transforming itself into the Europe of violence,\" wrote the critic Czeslaw Milosz.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e        \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOriginally published in 1902, Heart of Darkness remains one of this century's most enduring--and harrowing--works of fiction. Written several years after Conrad's grueling sojourn in the Belgian Congo, the novel tells the story of Marlow, a seaman who undertakes his own journey into the African jungle to find the tormented white trader Kurtz. Rich in irony and spellbinding prose, Heart of Darkness is a complex meditation on colonialism, evil, and the thin line between civilization and barbarity. This edition contains selections from Conrad's Congo Diary of 1890--the first notes, in effect, for the novel which was composed at the end of that decade.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eVirginia Woolf wrote of Conrad, \"His books are full of moments of vision. They light up a whole character in a flash. . . .  He could not write badly, one feels, to save his life.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e0421BU\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Reach Literacy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51930009043168,"sku":"Classics","price":6.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0431\/0794\/2562\/files\/OIP_a9b783d4-ee48-4fa6-89b4-afead37cab68.webp?v=1776789825","url":"https:\/\/reachareader.com\/products\/the-heart-of-darkness-used-paperback-joseph-conrad","provider":"Reach Literacy","version":"1.0","type":"link"}