{"product_id":"2940158265532","title":"Heart of Darkness (illustrated)","description":"Heart of Darkness is a novella written by Polish-born writer Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski). Before its 1902 publication, it appeared as a three-part series (1899) in Blackwood's Magazine. It is widely regarded as a significant work of English literature and part of the Western canon.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis highly symbolic story is actually a story within a story, or frame narrative. It follows Marlow as he recounts, from dusk through to late night, his adventure into the Congo to a group of men aboard a ship anchored in the Thames Estuary.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe story details an incident when Marlow, an Englishman, took a foreign assignment as a ferry-boat captain, employed by a Belgian trading company. Although the river is never specifically named, readers may assume it is the Congo River, in the Congo Free State, a private colony of King Leopold II. Marlow is employed to transport ivory downriver; however, his more pressing assignment is to return Kurtz, another ivory trader, to civilization in a cover up. Kurtz has a reputation throughout the region.","brand":"Joseph Conrad","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47113102524656,"sku":"2940158265532","price":1.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940158265532_p0.jpg?v=1764120864","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940158265532","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}