{"product_id":"heart-of-darkness-by-joseph-conrad-2526c","title":"Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad","description":"\u003cp\u003e 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.  This 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.  The 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41830937493578,"sku":"2526c","price":7.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/2526c_3c919f86-2a48-4c3d-a042-6640b800a950.jpg?v=1764460664","url":"https:\/\/www.bookexpress.nz\/products\/heart-of-darkness-by-joseph-conrad-2526c","provider":"Book Express","version":"1.0","type":"link"}