{"product_id":"heart-of-darkness-9781108451673","title":"Heart of Darkness","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''I asked myself what I was doing there, with a sensation of panic in my heart as though I had blundered into a place of cruel and absurd mysteries not fit for a human being to behold''. Charles Marlow''s dark intuition here arrives at the culmination of his physical and psychological quest in search of the infamous ivory-trader Kurtz in Joseph Conrad''s most famous short story, Heart of Darkness. Ambiguously drawn to the powerful ''voice'' of this autocratic European who has become a self-proclaimed ruler in an African colony, Marlow is increasingly embroiled in Kurtz''s life and death: he is finally forced into a radical questioning, not only of his own assumptions, but also of the civilized and imperial pretensions of Western Europe. Offering a freshly-researched text based on the writer''s original documents, this edition presents a classic of early modernist fiction in a version that, for the first time, recovers Conrad''s preferred wordings, punctuation and narrative structure.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of maps; Acknowledgements; Introduction; A note on the text; Select bibliography; Chronology; Abbreviations and note on editions; Heart of Darkness; Appendices; Notes; Glossary of nautical terms.","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53186762735959,"sku":"9781108451673","price":14.67,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/heart-of-darkness-9781108451673","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}