Nostromo

Joseph Conrad

ISBN 10: 1441750517 ISBN 13: 9781441750518

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks, 2010

Synopsis

Joseph Conrad's multilayered masterpiece tells of one nation's violent revolution and one hero's moral degeneration. Conrad convincingly invents an entire country, Costaguana, and sets it afire as warlords compete for power and a fortune in silver.

Senor Gould, adamant that his silver should not become spoil for his enemies, entrusts it to his faithful longshoreman, Nostromo, a local hero of sorts whom Senor Gould believes to be incorruptible. Nostromo accepts the mission as an opportunity to increase his own fame. But when his exploit fails to win him the rewards he had hoped for, he is consumed by a corrupting resentment. Nostromo, relevant both as literature and as a brilliant social study, ambitiously brings to life Latin American history and the politics of an underdeveloped country.

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About the Author

JOSEPH CONRAD (Jozef Teodor Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowski) (1857-1924) was born in the Ukraine. Raised by an uncle after the death of his parents, he educated himself by reading widely in Polish and French. At age twenty-one he began a long career sailing the seas on French merchant vessels, after which he went to London and began writing, using the romance and adventure of his own life for his incomparable sea novels.

Review

I'd rather have written Conrad's Nostromo than any other novel. --F. Scott Fitzgerald

Edition details

• Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1441750517
• ISBN 13: 9781441750518
• Binding: Audio CD
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 14