{"product_id":"heart-of-darkness-penguin-classics-deluxe-edition-paperback","title":"Heart of Darkness: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoseph Conrad\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAdam Hochschild\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by), \u003cb\u003eMaya Jasanoff\u003c\/b\u003e (Afterword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoseph Conrad's enduring portrait of the ugliness of colonialism in a deluxe edition with a gripping cover by \u003ci\u003eHellboy\u003c\/i\u003e artist Mike Mignola. \u003cb\u003eNominated 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eHeart of Darkness\u003c\/i\u003e is the thrilling tale of Marlow, a seaman and wanderer recounting his physical and psychological journey in search of the infamous ivory trader Kurtz. Traveling upriver into the heart of the African continent, he gradually becomes obsessed by this enigmatic, wraith-like figure. Marlow's discovery of how Kurtz has gained his position of power over the local people involves him in a radical questioning, not only of his own nature and values, but of those that underpin Western civilization itself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoseph Conrad\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e(originally Józef Teodor Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowski) was born in the Ukraine in 1857 and grew up under Tsarist autocracy. In 1896 he settled in Kent, where he produced within fifteen years such modern classics as \u003ci\u003eYouth\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHeart of Darkness\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLord Jim\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTyphoon\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNostromo\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Secret Agent\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eUnder Western Eyes\u003c\/i\u003e. He continued to write until his death in 1924. Today Conrad is generally regarded as one of the greatest writers of fiction in English--his third language. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eAdam Hochschild\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of seven books, including \u003ci\u003eKing Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves\u003c\/i\u003e. He teaches narrative writing at the Graduate School of Journalism, University of California at Berkeley. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMaya Jasanoff\u003c\/b\u003e is the Coolidge Professor of History at Harvard. She is the author of the prize-winning \u003ci\u003eEdge of Empire: Lives, Culture, and Conquest in the East\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e1750-1850 \u003c\/i\u003e(2005) and \u003ci\u003eLiberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World \u003c\/i\u003e(2011), which received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfi ction and the George Washington Book Prize, and \u003ci\u003eThe Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World \u003c\/i\u003e(2017). A 2013 Guggenheim Fellow, Jasanoff won the 2017 Windham-Campbell Prize for Nonfiction. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eTimothy S. Hayes\u003c\/b\u003e is an Instructor of English at Auburn University in Alabama. His research interests include narrative theory and the novel, particularly the works of Robert Louis Stevenson and Joseph Conrad. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eMike Mignola\u003c\/b\u003e is an award-winning artist and writer. 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