Nostromo (Everyman's Library) - Softcover

Conrad, Joseph

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0460871919 ISBN 13: 9780460871914

Publisher: Tuttle Publishing, 1995

Synopsis

From an anecdote and a brief visit to Venezuela, Conrad derived the exotic scenery of the province of Sulaco and its rootless mixed-race society. In this shadowy setting, Nostromo (1904) enacts an intense moral drama of dictatorship and revolutionary violence, of corrosive materialism and the voracity of "progress."

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Nostromo, first published in 1904, is arguably Conrad’s greatest and most complex novel. A compelling adventure story, it is also a novel of profound psychological insight and of powerful political implications. It tells the story of a Central American state whose silver mine serves both literally and metaphorically as the source of the country‘s value. Written at the time of the development of the Panama Canal, Nostromo is set in the imaginary province of Sulaco, which secedes from the federation of Costaguana in order to protect its natural resource, the silver mine. The parallels with the ‘revolution’ fomented in Panama by the United States in 1903 are striking; just as Panama seceded from Columbia to satisfy the material interests of the canal builders, so the secession of Sulaco serves the material interests of ‘the Gould concession.’ In this edition a variety of documents from the period (including material concerning American involvement in Central America in the early twentieth century, early critical notices, and family letters of Conrad’s) help to set the text in context.

About this edition

• Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0460871919
• ISBN 13: 9780460871914
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416
• Editor: Watts M A PH D Emeritus Professor Of English Cedric