num_pages: 532
description: Conrad's foresight and his ability to pluck the human adventure from complex historical circumstances were such that his greatest novel, Nostromo -- though nearly one hundred years old -- says as much about today's Latin America as any of the finest recent accounts of that region's turbulent political life. Insistently dramatic in its storytelling, spectacular in its recreation of the subtropical landscape, this picture of an insurrectionary society and the opportunities it provides for moral corruption gleams on every page with its author's dry, undeceived, impeccable intelligence.
language: English
title: Nostromo
titlecomplete: Nostromo
characters: Gian' Battista Fidanza, Mr. Holroyd, Don Jose Avellanos, Charles Gould, Martin Decoud, Giorgio Viola
genres: Fiction, 20th Century, Classics, English Literature, British Literature, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Literature, Adventure, Novels
ratings_count: 16685
places: South America, Costaguana
publisher: Everyman's Library