![]() ![]() A map, a chronology of the narrative, a glossary of foreign terms, and an appendix reprinting the serial ending all complement what is sure to be the definitive edition of this classic work. Originally published as a two-volume serial in T.P.s Weekly, Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard is the 1904 epic adventure novel written by Polish-British. This edition features a new introduction with fresh historical and interpretative perspectives, as well as detailed explanatory notes which pay special attention to the literary, political, historical, and geographical allusions and implications of the novel. ![]() ![]() Greed and corruption seep into the lives of everyone, and Nostromo, the principled foreman of the mine, is tested to the limit.Ĭonrad's evocation of Latin America-its grand landscapes, the ferocity of its politics, and the tenacity of individuals swept up in imperial ambitions-has never been bettered. In the harbor town of Sulaco, a vivid cast of characters is caught up in a civil war to decide whether its fabulously wealthy silver mine, funded by American money but owned by a third-generation English immigrant, can be preserved from the hands of venal politicians. Nostromo, a steadier and luckier man, lives on for years, cautiously allowing himself to grow wealthy off the treasure. 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. ![]()
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