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Nostromo (1999) (edit title/settings)

A Tale of the Seaboard

by Joseph Conrad (Author) (edit contributors)

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Set in the imaginary South American republic of Costaguana, this work is an illustration of the impact of foreign exploitation on a developing nation. As Sulaco, site of an English/American controlled silver mine establishes its independence, its ideals are inevitably compromised.

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  • “There is something in a treasure that fastens upon a man's mind. He will pray and blaspheme and still persevere, and will curse the day he heard of it, and will let his last hour come upon him unawares, still believing that he missed it only by a foot. He will see it every time he closes his eyes. He will never forget it till he is dead- and even then-Doctor, did you ever hear of the miserable Azuera, that cannot die? Ha! Ha! Sailors like myself. There is no getting away from a treasure that once fastens upon your mind.”
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  • “Solitude from mere outward condition of existence becomes very swiftly a state of soul in which the affectations of irony and skepticism have no place. It takes possession of the mind, and drives forth the thought into the exile of utter unbelief.”
  • “What more could she have expected? It was a colossal and lasting success; and love was only a short moment of forgetfulness, a short intoxication, whose delight one remembered with a sense of sadness, as if it had been a deep grief lived through.”
  • “A man haunted by a fixed idea is insane.”

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IN the time of Spanish rule, and for many years afterwards, the town of Sulaco-the luxuriant beauty of the orange gardens bears witness to its antiquity - had never been commercially anything more important than a coasting port with a fairly large local trade in ox-hides and indigo.

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This book is in Landmarks of World Literature. (edition-based publisher list)
This is book 47 of 93 in Modern Library's 100 Best Novels: The Board's List. (authoritative list)

Preceded by The Secret Agent, and followed by The Rainbow.

This is book 44 of 91 in The Novel 100: A Ranking of the Greatest Novels of All Time, 2004. (authoritative list)

Preceded by Fathers and Sons, and followed by Beloved.

This is book 773 of 1271 in 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. (authoritative list)

Preceded by Where Angels Fear to Tread, and followed by Hadrian the Seventh.

This book is in Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read. (authoritative list)
This is book 109 of 214 in Best English-Language Fiction of the 20th Century. (authoritative list)

Preceded by A Good Man Is Hard to Find, and followed by The Rainbow.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Joseph Conrad (Author)

Other Contributors:

  1. Ian P. Watt (Author)
  2. Michael Pennington (Introduction)
  3. Frank Muller (Reader)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Penguin
Country: England
Publication Date: 1999
ISBN: 0140287418
Page Count: 464

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Reading Level: Adults

Definitely for adults. The material is too heavy to understand for younger folks.

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