num_pages: 512
description: Conrad's foresight and his ability to pluck the human adventure from complex historical circumstances were such that his greatest novel, Nostromo - though over 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: Mr. Holroyd, Gian' Battista Fidanza, Charles Gould, Martin Decoud, Don Jose Avellanos, Giorgio Viola
genres: Classics, Adventure, British Literature, English Literature, Novels, Historical Fiction, Literature, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 16684
places: Costaguana, South America
publisher: Gardners Books