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Nostromo, published in 1904, is one of Conrad's finest works. Nostromo - though one hundred years old - says as much about today's Latin America as any of the finest recent accounts of that region's turbulent political life. Insistently dramatic in its storytelling,... Read Full Overview

Joseph Conrad's foresight and his ability to distill human adventure from complex historical circumstances were so keen that his greatest novel, Nostromo--though more than a century old--says as much about Latin America as any recent account of that region's turbulent... Read Full Overview

Nostromo is Joseph Conrad's classic novel set in South America, exploring themes of loyalty, greed and honor. Published in 1904, Nostromo is seen as one of Conrad's greatest works and is considered a classic of English literature. The story follows the fortunes of an Italian... Read Full Overview

One of the greatest English writers of the 19th century was a Polish-born man who couldn't even speak English fluently until he had entered adulthood. Nevertheless, Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) went on to have a well-regarded literary career that bridged Romanticism and Modernism... Read Full Overview

One of the greatest political novels in any language, Nostromo reenacts the establishment of modern capitalism in a remote South American province locked between the Andes and the Pacific. In the harbor town of Sulaco, a vivid cast of characters is caught up in a civil war to... Read Full Overview

Joseph Conrad's Nostromo (1904) is widely considered his modernist masterpiece. The first of his major political novels, it depicts the effects of repeated revolution in a fictional South American state under the growing influence of the United States of America. It is an enduring... Read Full Overview

La rep blica de Costaguana, en la tenaza entre las sombras de su Sierra y las profundidades de su Golfo Pl cido, es el teatro de un mundo que hierve de realidad en sus torbellinos de revoluci n y contrarrevoluci n, de intereses materiales y emocionales, de tensiones entre las... Read Full Overview

Considered by many to be Conrad's masterpiece, it is a story of revolution, deception, and self-betrayal. Running throughout is the theme of man's struggle against his greatest enemy--himself. The agent of destruction is stolen silver. When revolution breaks out, Nostromo is... Read Full Overview

About the Book: Nostromo Nostromo is Joseph Conrad's masterly tale of corruptionand politics. The nation of Costaguana is beset by dictatorship, corruptionand misrule. When Charles Gould's silver mine is threatened bysquabbling warlords and ruthless revolutionaries, he calls... Read Full Overview

First published in 1904, "Nostromo" is widely considered one of Joseph Conrad's best works. Set in the fictitious mining town of Sulaco, a port city in the imaginary South American country of Costaguana, it is the story of Sen r Gould, an English expatriate who owns the silver-mining... Read Full Overview