This edition contains selections from Conrad\u2019s\u00a0Congo Diary<\/i>\u00a0of 1890\u2014the first notes, in effect, for the novel, which was composed at the end of that decade. Virginia Woolf wrote of Conrad: \u201cHis 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.\u201d<\/p>\n
Introduction by Caryl Phillips<\/p>\n
Commentary by H. L. Mencken, E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, Bertrand Russell, Lionel Trilling, Chinua Achebe, and Philip Gourevitch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Originally published in 1902,\u00a0Heart of Darkness<\/i> remains one of this century\u2019s most enduring works of fiction. Written several years after Joseph Conrad\u2019s grueling sojourn in the Belgian Congo, the novel is a complex meditation on colonialism, evil, and the thin line between civilization and barbarity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":20907,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[684],"product_tag":[],"composite_virtual":false,"composite_layout":"","composite_add_to_cart_form_location":"","composite_editable_in_cart":false,"composite_sold_individually_context":"","composite_shop_price_calc":"","composite_components":[],"composite_scenarios":[],"bundled_by":["20137"],"bundle_stock_status":"instock","bundle_stock_quantity":null,"bundle_virtual":false,"bundle_layout":"","bundle_add_to_cart_form_location":"","bundle_editable_in_cart":false,"bundle_sold_individually_context":"","bundle_item_grouping":"","bundle_min_size":"","bundle_max_size":"","bundled_items":[],"bundle_sell_ids":[],"yoast_head":"\n