{"product_id":"heart-of-darkness-and-selections-from-the-congo-diary-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 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJospeh Conrad\u003c\/b\u003e (1957-1924) grew up amid political unrest in Russian-occupied Poland. After twenty years at sea with the French and British merchant navies, he settled in England in 1894. Over the next three decades he revolutionized the English novel with works such as Typhoon (1902), Youth (1902), Nostromo (1904), The Secret Agent (1907), Under Western Eyes (1911), Chance (1913), and Victory (1915).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCaryl Phillips\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of many works of fiction and nonfiction. His novel \u003ci\u003eA Distant Shore\u003c\/i\u003e won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and was a finalist for the PEN\/Faulkner Award. His other awards include the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Phillips is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and lives in New York City.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50523558445330,"sku":"9780375753770","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9fc180be-1651-4126-b178-b86ce59aef66.jpg?v=1731152208","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/heart-of-darkness-and-selections-from-the-congo-diary-9780375753770","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}