Nostromo (Wordsworth Classics) - Softcover

Conrad, Joseph

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1853261742 ISBN 13: 9781853261749

Verlag: Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1996

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Nostromo (Wordsworth Classics). Joseph Conrad. Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1996

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Introduction and Notes by Robert Hampson, Royal Holloway College, University of London. Nostromo is the only man capable of the decisive action needed to save the silver of the San Tome mine and secure independence for Sulaco, Occidental province of the Latin American state of Costaguana. Is his integrity as unassailable as everyone believes, or will his ideals, like those which have inspired the struggling state itself, buckle under economic and political pressures? Nostromo is an extraordinary illustration of the impact of foreign commercial exploits on a young developing nation, and the problems of reconciling individual identity with a social role. Conrad peoples his imaginary Latin American state with a multi-national cast of fully-rounded characters to achieve striking realism and create a novel that he called `my largest canvas'.

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'Nostromo'--though nearly 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.

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• Verlag: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• ISBN 10: 1853261742
• ISBN 13: 9781853261749
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 416