Nostromo : a tale of the seaboard
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- Publication date
- 1904
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- Public Domain Mark 1.0
- Topics
- bub_upload, Revolutions -- Latin America -- Fiction, Sailors -- Latin America -- Fiction, Revolutions, Sailors, Latin America -- Fiction, Latin America
- Publisher
- Harmondsworth, England : Penguin Books
- Collection
- americana
- Book from the collections of
- University of Michigan
- Language
- English
Set in the South American republic of 'Costaguana, ' it is an exciting, complicated story about capitalist exploitation and revolution on the national scene and about personal morality and corruption in individuals. Charles Gould's silver mine helps to maintain the country's stability and its reactionary government. Gould's idealistic preoccupation with the mine warps his character and makes him neglect his gentle wife, Dona Emilia. When the revolution comes, Gould puts a consignment of silver in the charge of Nostromo, the magnificent, 'incorruptible' capataz de cargadores 'foreman of the dock workers'. A chance happening makes Nostromo decide to bury the silver and pretend that it was lost at sea. He is eventually killed on the island where his riches are buried, when he is mistaken by his fiancee's father for a prowler. ... Conrad's characterization is strong, his narration is complex and oblique. The story starts halfway through the events of the revolution and proceeds by way of flashbacks and glimpses into the future.
462 pages ; 18 cm
462 pages ; 18 cm
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- ark:/13960/t5hb2g165
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- 95.59
- Pages
- 500
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- Worldcat (source edition)
- 11787286
- Year
- 1904
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