Nostromo - Joseph Conrad - Books - Createspace Independent Publishing Platf - 9781977754219 - September 30, 2017
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Nostromo

Conrad set his novel in the mining town of Sulaco, an imaginary port in the western region of the imaginary country of Costaguana. The book has more fully developed characters than any other of his novels, but two characters dominate the narrative: Señor Gould and the eponymous anti-hero, the "incorruptible" Nostromo. In his "Author's Note" to early editions of Nostromo, Joseph Conrad provides a detailed explanation of the inspirational origins of his novel. There he relates how, as a young man of about seventeen, while serving aboard a ship in the Gulf of Mexico, he heard the story of a man who had stolen, single-handedly, "a whole lighter-full of silver". As Conrad goes on to relate, he forgot about the story until some twenty-five years later when he came across a travelogue in a used bookshop in which the author related how he worked for years aboard a schooner whose master claimed to be that very thief who had stolen the silver.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released September 30, 2017
ISBN13 9781977754219
Publishers Createspace Independent Publishing Platf
Pages 232
Dimensions 216 × 280 × 12 mm   ·   548 g
Language English  

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