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Nostromo: a tale of the seaboard

By Joseph Conrad , Jacques Berthoud , Mara Kalnins

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
2007
ISBN
0192801546, 9780192801548, 9781435617735
LCC
PR6005.O4 N578 2007
Open Library ID
OL17575366M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1713056 bytes)
Series
Oxford world's classics
Edition
New ed
Pages
496\496
Topic
Education
Library
torrents.ru tech collections 2009-11-14
Orientation
no
Scanned
no
Time added
2010-01-11 02:35:34

Description

One of the greatest political novels in any language, Nostromo reenacts the establishment of modern capitalism in a remote South American province locked between the Andes and the Pacific. In the harbor town of Sulaco, a vivid cast of characters is caught up in a civil war to decide whether its fabulously wealthy silver mine, funded by American money but owned by a third-generation English immigrant, can be preserved from the hands of venal politicians. Greed and corruption seep into the lives of everyone, and Nostromo, the principled foreman of the mine, is tested to the limit.Conrad's evocation of Latin America — its grand landscapes, the ferocity of its politics, and the tenacity of individuals swept up in imperial ambitions — has never been bettered. This edition features a new introduction with fresh historical and interpretative perspectives, as well as detailed explanatory notes which pay special attention to the literary, political, historical, and geographical allusions and implications of the novel. A map, a chronology of the narrative, a glossary of foreign terms, and an appendix reprinting the serial ending all complement what is sure to be the definitive edition of this classic work.

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