{"product_id":"9780375753770","title":"Heart of Darkness and Selections from the Congo Diary","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eSelected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47012860592368,"sku":"9780375753770","price":11.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780375753770_p0.jpg?v=1763692581","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780375753770","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}