| Nostromo: "A Tale Of The Seaboard" Contributor(s): Conrad, Joseph (Author) |
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ISBN: 1977546544 ISBN-13: 9781977546548 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $21.84 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Sea Stories |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 1160 |
| Physical Information: 1.23" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (1.77 lbs) 554 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Nostromo is a political novel by the Polish-British writer Joseph Conrad, published in 1904, which deals with the affairs of a fictitious Republic of South America, called "Costaguana". It was originally published in two volumes in T.P.'s Weekly. The novel is developed in the imaginary port Sulaco whose economy depends on the silver mining. It draws the characteristics of internal and international politics in the Latin American countries of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and the intervention of the United States to secure their economic interests. The civil wars of the Creole elites, the intrigues and the supposedly "incorruptible" popular leader, finally determine the secession of Sulaco that declares itself independent of Costaguana, in order to secure the San Tome silver mine to the Americans and their associates in the local elite. |
