{"product_id":"heart-of-darkness-and-selections-from-the-congo-diary-isbn-9780375753770","title":"Heart of Darkness: and Selections from The Congo Diary","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eSelected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time • Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s \u003ci\u003eThe Great American Read\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction by Caryl Phillips\u003cbr\u003eCommentary by H. L. Mencken, E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, Bertrand Russell, Lionel Trilling, Chinua Achebe, and Philip Gourevitch\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally published in 1902,\u003ci\u003e Heart of Darkness\u003c\/i\u003e remains one of this century’s most enduring works of fiction. Written several years after Joseph Conrad’s grueling sojourn in the Belgian Congo, the novel is a complex meditation on colonialism, evil, and the thin line between civilization and barbarity. This edition contains selections from Conrad’s \u003ci\u003eCongo Diary\u003c\/i\u003e of 1890—the first notes, in effect, for the novel, which was composed at the end of that decade. Virginia 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.”","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300116615397,"sku":"NP9780375753770","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780375753770.jpg?v=1767728835","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/heart-of-darkness-and-selections-from-the-congo-diary-isbn-9780375753770","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}