num_pages: 489
description: Nostromo , published in 1904, is one of Conrad's finest works. Nostromo - though 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.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
language: English
title: Nostromo
titlecomplete: Nostromo
characters: Don Jose Avellanos, Gian' Battista Fidanza, Giorgio Viola, Charles Gould, Martin Decoud, Mr. Holroyd
genres: Literary Fiction, English Literature, Fiction, Adventure, 20th Century, Literature, Historical Fiction, Classics, Novels, British Literature
ratings_count: 16685
places: Costaguana, South America
publisher: Penguin Books Ltd