Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Conrad, Joseph

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141441631 ISBN 13: 9780141441634

Verlag: Penguin Classics, 2007

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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.

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Joseph Conrad was born in the Ukraine in 1857 and grew up under Tsarist autocracy. In 1874 Conrad travelled to Marseilles, where he served in French merchant vessels before joining a British ship in 1878 as an apprentice. In 1886 he obtained British nationality. Eight years later he left the sea to devote himself to writing, publishing his first novel, Almayer's Folly, in 1895. The following year 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.

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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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Penguin Classics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0141441631
• ISBN 13: 9780141441634
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 544
• Herausgeber: Pauly Veronique
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