Nostromo
Subtitle: a tale of the seaboard
Series: Collected edition of the works of Joseph Conrad
Publisher: Dent
Published: 1960
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 566
Description: Nostromo is a classic anti-hero, who lives in a fictitious mining village on the coast of a fictitious South American country. Many regard the imagined setting of the novel to be some of Conrad's finest work. The characters in the novel are also more highly-developed than those of his other novels, and were inspired by a group of mental patients Conrad had met shortly before beginning the novel.