{"product_id":"heart-of-darkness-by-joseph-conrad-9780141199788","title":"Heart of Darkness","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe new paperback series – Penguin English Library.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. What was there after all? Joy, fear, sorrow, devotion, rage - who can tell? - but truth - truth stripped of its cloak of time. Let the fool gape and shudder - the man knows, and can look on without a wink.'\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMarlow, a seaman, tells of a journey up the Congo. His goal is the troubled European and ivory trader Kurtz. Worshipped and feared by invaders as well as natives, Kurtz has become a godlike figure, his presence pervading the jungle like a thick, obscuring mist. As his boat labours further upstream, closer and closer to Kurtz's extraordinary and terrible domain, so Marlow finds his faith in himself and civilisation crumbling.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eConrad's \u003cem\u003eHeart of Darkness\u003c\/em\u003e has been considered the most important indictment of the evils of imperialism written to date.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46494938824940,"sku":"9780141199788","price":22.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780141199788.jpg?v=1748468007","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/heart-of-darkness-by-joseph-conrad-9780141199788","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}