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Nostromo - (Penguin Classics) by Joseph Conrad (Paperback)
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Highlights
- Nostromo, published in 1904, is one of Conrad's finest works.
- About the Author: Joseph Conrad (originally Józef Teodor Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowski) was born in the Ukraine in 1857 and grew up under Tsarist autocracy.
- 544 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Classics
- Series Name: Penguin Classics
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"Nostromo offers an intensely pessimistic portrayal of morally empty politicians in a fictional South American nation called Costaguana. Wracked by greed and materialism, Conrad''s characters have good intentions that give way to unchecked self-interest. It''s monumental in scope, adventurous in spirit, and crammed with surprisingly progressive details and insights.Book Synopsis
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.About the Author
Joseph Conrad (originally Józef Teodor Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowski) was born in the Ukraine in 1857 and grew up under Tsarist autocracy. In 1896 he settled in Kent, where he produced within fifteen years such modern classics as Youth, Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, Typhoon, Nostromo, The Secret Agent and Under Western Eyes. He continued to write until his death in 1924. Today Conrad is generally regarded as one of the greatest writers of fiction in English--his third language.Dimensions (Overall): 7.82 Inches (H) x 6.55 Inches (W) x 1.0 Inches (D)
Weight: .81 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Series Title: Penguin Classics
Sub-Genre: Classics
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Number of Pages: 544
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback
Author: Joseph Conrad
Language: English
Street Date: December 18, 2007
TCIN: 93118747
UPC: 9780141441634
Item Number (DPCI): 247-11-8518
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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