Nostromo - Joseph Conrad - Books -  - 9798690252298 - January 26, 2021
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Nostromo

Book Excerpt: ... Gulliver) my family all well, my wife heartily glad to learn that the fuss was all over, and our small boy considerably grown during my absence. My principal authority for the history of Costaguana is, of course, my venerated friend, the late Don Jose Avellanos, Minister to the Courts of England and Spain, etc., etc., in his impartial and eloquent "History of Fifty Years of Misrule." That work was never published--the reader will discover why--and I am in fact the only person in the world possessed of its contents. I have mastered them in not a few hours of earnest meditation, and I hope that my accuracy will be trusted. In justice to myself, and to allay the fears of prospective readers, I beg to point out that the few historical allusions are never dragged in for the sake of parading my unique erudition, but that each of them is closely related to actuality; either throwing a light on the nature of current events or affecting directly the fortunes of the people of whom I speak. As to their own histori...

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released January 26, 2021
ISBN13 9798690252298
Pages 388
Dimensions 152 × 229 × 20 mm   ·   517 g
Language English  

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