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Nostromo; a tale of the seaboard

Nostromo is a classic anti-hero, who lives in a fictitious mining village on the coast of a fictitious South American country. Many regard the imagined setting of the novel to be some of Conrad's finest work. The characters in the novel are also more highly-developed than those of his other novels, and were inspired by a group of mental patients Conrad had met shortly before beginning the novel.

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  • "I have heard no end of tales of his strength, his audacity, his fidelity...incorruptible! It is indeed a name of honour for the Capataz of the Cargadores of Sulaco.' One of the greatest political novels in any language, Nostromo enacts the establishment of modern capitalism in a remote South American province locked between the Andes and the Pacific. In the harbourtown of Sulaco, a vivid cast of characters is caught up in a civil war to decide whether its fabulously wealthy silver mine, funded by American money but owned by a third-generation English immigrant, can be preserved from the hands of venal politicians. Greed and corruption seep into the lives of everyone, and Nostromo, the principled Capataz, is tested to the limit. Conrad's evocation of the great Latin-American landscapes, the ferocity of its politics, and individuals swept up in imperial ambitions has never been bettered. This edition offers new insights into Conrad's masterpiece."
  • "Nostromo is a classic anti-hero, who lives in a fictitious mining village on the coast of a fictitious South American country. Many regard the imagined setting of the novel to be some of Conrad's finest work. The characters in the novel are also more highly-developed than those of his other novels, and were inspired by a group of mental patients Conrad had met shortly before beginning the novel."@en
  • "Nostromo is a classic anti-hero, who lives in a fictitious mining village on the coast of a fictitious South American country. Many regard the imagined setting of the novel to be some of Conrad's finest work. The characters in the novel are also more highly-developed than those of his other novels, and were inspired by a group of mental patients Conrad had met shortly before beginning the novel."
  • "Story of a daring man on the South American seaboard during a revolution."
  • "In a tale of a South American revolution, an Italian named Nostromo is the most feared man at the headquarters of a great silver mine. He successfully removes the silver treasure but informs everyone involved that it has gone down on a sunken ship."@en
  • "A gripping tale of capitalist exploitation and rebellion, set amid the mist-shrouded mountains of a fictional South American republic, employs flashbacks and glimpses of the future to depict the lure of silver and its effects on men. Conrad's deep moral consciousness and masterful narrative technique are at their best in this, one of his greatest works. -Amazon.com."@en
  • "When the silver mines of the South American republic of Costaguana are threatened by rebel forces, a brave captain, Nostromo, steps in and offers to bury the silver to ensure its safety."@en
  • "When the silver mines of the South American republic of Costaguana are threatened by rebel forces, a brave captain, Nostromo, steps in and offers to bury the silver to ensure its safety."
  • "Set in the fictional South American country of Costaguana, Nostromo explores the volatile politics and crippling greed surrounding the San Tomsilver mine. The story of power, love, revolutions, loyalty and reward is told with richly evocative description and brilliantly realised characters. But Nostromo is more than an adventure story; it is also a profoundly dark moral fable. Its language is as compellingly resonant as the sea itself; the characters absorbing and complex. It was Conrad? masterwork, a forerunner of Modernism, and one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century."
  • "Nostromo is a story of revolution and betrayal set in a fictional South American republic called Costaguana. Señor Gould, the owner of a silver-mining company, entrusts his silver to Nostromo, an apparently incorruptible Italian expatriate, but can he really be trusted?"@en
  • ""Intrigue abounds in this novel about the fictional South American country of Costaguana. A silver mine controlled by foreign powers tries to declare its independence" --Provided by publisher."@en
  • "Ben shu shi xian dai chang pian xiao shuo, zhu ren gong nuo si tuo luo mo shi sa la ke gang kou de ma tou gong chang, ji yong gan, ji zhi, zhong cheng zhu zhong mei de yu yi shen. zai gong he guo de yi chang jun shi pan luan zhong, ta gu shen shen ru di hou shu bai li, yin ling zhe zheng yi zhi shi, xiao mie pan jun, zheng jiu ren min yu shui huo zhi zhong."
  • ""Conrad's pessimistic worldview colors this novel depicting the brutality of Latin American politics and the tragedies that inevitably ensue.""
  • "In a tale of a South American revolution, an Italian named Nostromo is the most feared man at the headquarters of a great silver mine. He successfully removes the silver treasure but informs everyone that it has gone down on a sunken ship."@en
  • "Ten years after his father is murdered by a brutal dictator, Englishman Charles Gould arrives in Costaguana to reopen the family silver mine. But instead of ushering in a shining era of prosperity and progress, the return of the silver engenders a new cycle of violence as Costaguana erupts in civil war, initiated by rival warlords determined to seize the mine and its riches."@en
  • "Román z prvních let tvůrčí zralosti anglického klasika polského původu líčí romantickou životní historii italského námořníka, který si získá důvěru anglických kolonisátorů jihoamerické republiky a zmocní se velkéhopokladu.Milostný vztah k sestře vlastní snoubenky se však stane příčinou Nostromovy tragické smrti. Příběh se odehrává v druhé polovině minulého století. Kromě četných psychologických a dobrodružných zápletek zobrazuje tísnivésociálnía politické poměry v malém státě Jižní Ameriky, zmítaném občanskými válkami a kapitálovými machinacemi evropských i severoamerických investorů."
  • "Returning to the steamy backwater of Costaguana in South America Charles Gould is determined to make a success of the inherited silver mine. However, his dreams of wealth and power are thwarted when the country is plunged into revolution."
  • "Edited with an introduction and notes by Martin Seymour-Smith. In his evocation of the republic of Costaguana, set amid the exotic and grandiose scenery of South America, Conrad reveals not only the lives and fates of his characters but also the physical and political composition of a whole country."
  • "Set in Costaguana, a fictional South American country torn by revolutions and intrigue, this novel centres on a silver mine owned by an Englishman."@en
  • "Paperback."@en
  • "In this gripping story about an imaginative South American republic of Costaguana, Conrad paints in shocking detail the insidious effects of greed and corruption. When the silver mines of the South American Republic of Costaguana are threatened by rebel forces, a brave Italian captain, Nostromo, steps in and offers to bury the silver to ensure its safety. His good intentions become tainted as the dark forces of human nature take over. Joseph Conrad's heralding literary achievement, Nostromo is also Conrad's darkest novel, an account of human frailty with an ironic twist; it is a st."@en
  • "Dans cette histoire, qui a pour cadre un pays imaginaire d'Amérique du Sud, on retrouve tous les thèmes chers à Conrad : la lâcheté, l'ambiguïté des sentiments et l'opacité des individus."
  • "Joseph Conrad's thrilling history of a fictional South American country, its precious resources, and the men who will decide its fate The fictional country of Costaguana, loosely based on Colombia, has suffered a long string of despots more interested in lining their pockets than strengthening the nation. Discontent simmers throughout the land, but in the major port city of Sulaco, industry chugs along. Keeping the silver flowing are capable men like Nostromo, a loyal and proficient longshoreman for the shipping company that transports boatloads of the precious ore. When an unexpected military coup shakes up the country, Nostromo finds himself entrusted with hiding an untold fortune from the encroaching revolution. Nostromo must balance his loyalty to Sulaco's industrialists against the country's financial health and the intentions of the insurgents. In this intricate novel, Joseph Conrad combines politics, adventure, revenge, and revolution to illustrate how power and money can corrupt even the most righteous of men. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices."@en
  • "本书是现代长篇小说, 主人公诺斯托罗莫是萨拉科港口的码头工长, 集勇敢, 机智, 忠诚诸种美德于一身. 在共和国的一场军事叛乱中, 他孤身深入敌后数百里, 引领着正义之师, 消灭叛军, 拯救人民于水火之中."
  • "Nostromo, by Joseph Conrad, is part of the <A href=http://www.barnesandnoble.com/classics/index.asp?z=y&cds2Pid=16447&sLinkPrefix>Barnes & Noble Classics</A> series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:<UL type=disc><LI style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto class=MsoNormal>New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars <LI style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto class=MsoNormal>Biographies of the authors <LI style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto class=MsoNormal>Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events <LI style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto class=MsoNormal>Footnotes and endnotes <LI style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto class=MsoNormal>Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work <LI style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto class=MsoNormal>Comments by other famous authors <LI style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto class=MsoNormal>Study questions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectations <LI style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto class=MsoNormal>Bibliographies for further reading <LI style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto class=MsoNormal>Indices & Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences—biographical, historical, and literary—to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works. <P style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt class=MsoNormal>One of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, Joseph Conrad's Nostromo is an immensely exciting tale of love, revolution, and politics set in the mythical South American country of Costaguana during the 1890s. Ten years after his father is murdered by a brutal dictator, Englishman Charles Gould arrives in Costaguana to reopen the family silver mine. But instead of ushering in a shining era of prosperity and progress, the return of the silver engenders a new cycle of violence as Costaguana erupts in civil war, initiated by rival warlords determined to seize the mine and its riches. In desperation, Gould turns to the only man who can save the mine's treasure—Nostromo, the incorruptible head of the local dockworkers, who protects the silver from rebel forces by taking it out to sea. But disaster strikes, burdening Nostromo with a terrible secret that forever alters the fate of everyone involved with the mine. A stunning monument to futility, Nostromo reveals how honor, idealism, and loyalty are inadequate defenses against the inexorable assault of corruption and evil. <P style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt>Brent Edwards is an Associate Professor in the English Department at Rutgers University. He is author of The Practice of Diaspora (Harvard University Press, 2003) and co-editor of Uptown Conservation: The New Jazz Studies (Columbia University Press, 2004)."@en
  • "Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time Originally published in 1904, Nostromo is considered by many to be Conrad's supreme achievement. Set in the imaginary South American republic of Costaguana, the novel reveals the effects of unbridled greed and imperialist interests on many different lives. Although each character's potential for good is ultimately corrupted, Nostromo underscores Conrad's belief in fidelity, moral discipline, and the need for human communion. The author himself described the book as 'an intense creative effort on what I suppose will remain my largest canvas.' 'Conrad endeavored to create a great, massive, multiphase symbol that would render his total vision of the world, his sense of individual destiny, his sense of man's place in nature, his sense of history and society,' observed Robert Penn Warren. 'Nostromo is the most strikingly modern of Conrad's novels,' said V. S. Pritchett. 'It is pervaded by a profound, even morbid sense of insecurity which is the very spirit of our age.' This volume is the companion to the acclaimed multipart series aired on Masterpiece Theatre."@en
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  • "Around the figure ofNostromo, Conrad spins a story about revolution, politics, an racial conflicts as complex as Nostromo, the man whose greatest enemy is himself. Heading the Gould Concession, the imperialistic silver mine, which runs the country's economy, is the somewhat idealistid Englishman Charles Gould, and his American financier, Holroyd, who sees the slave economy as a higher form of social Darwinism, "a pure form of Christianity." Opposing Gould is the cynical Frenchman, who claims to belive in nothing but "the truth of his sensations.""@en
  • "Nostromo is a 1904 novel by Polish-born British novelist Joseph Conrad, set in the fictitious South American republic of "Costaguana." It was originally published serially in two volumes of T.P.'s Weekly. Conrad sets his novel in the mining town of Sulaco, an imaginary port in the occidental region of the imaginary country of Costaguana. This town and its denizens are believed by many to be among Conrad's greatest literary creations. The book has more fully developed characters than any other of his novels, but two characters dominate the narrative: Señor Gould and the eponymous anti."@en
  • "The incident which forms the central theme is Nostromo's theft of the treasure from the silver mine with which he has been entrusted."@en
  • "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."@en
  • "Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard - The Original Classic Edition."@en
  • ""Nostromo est le chef-d'oeuvre de Conrad. Ce roman de cinq cents pages raconte l'histoire d'une république d'Amérique latine avec ses coups d'Etat, ses guerres civiles, ses luttes pour la démocratie, ses intellectuels libéraux, ses aventuriers, ses traîtres et, derrière tout cela, l'impérialisme américain."
  • "One of the greatest political novels in any language, Nostromo enacts the establishment of modern capitalism in a remote South American province locked between the Andes and the Pacific. This edition offers new insights into Conrad's masterpiece. - ;'I have heard no end of tales of his strength, his audacity, his fidelity ... incorruptible! It is indeed a name of honour for the Capataz of the Cargadores of Sulaco.'. One of the greatest political novels in any language, Nostromo enacts the establishment of modern capitalism in a remote South American province locked between the Andes and the Paci."@en

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  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
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  • "Sea stories"
  • "Political Fiction"@en
  • "Erzählende Literatur"
  • "Translations"
  • "Opowiadania morskie angielskie"
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Sea Stories"@en
  • "Film adaptations"@en
  • "Powieść polityczna angielska"
  • "Spændende bøger"
  • "Page proofs (Printing)"@en
  • "Page proofs (Printing)"
  • "Political fiction"@es
  • "Political fiction"@en
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  • "Novela política"
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  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "History"@en
  • "Roman anglais"

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  • "Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard: Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Véronique Pauly (Penguin Classics)"
  • "Nuosituomoluo"
  • "Nostromo; a tale of the seaboard"@en
  • "Nostromo : eine Geschichte von der Meeresküste"
  • "Hopealaiva : romaani"@fi
  • "Nostromo. A tale of the seaboard"
  • "Nostromo. A tale of the seaboard"@en
  • "노스트로모 / Nostromo / Joseph Conrad"
  • "Nostromo. * [T. 1]"
  • "Nostromo : A Tale of the Seaboard"
  • "Nostromo : opowieść z wybrzeża"@pl
  • "Nostromo : opowieść z wybrzeża"
  • "Nostromo. [2]"
  • "Nostromo eine Geschichte von der Meeresküste"
  • "Nostromo: A tale of the seaboard"@en
  • "Nostromo/ [1]"
  • "Nostromo : racconto della costa"
  • "Nostromo : racconto della costa"@it
  • "Nostromo : Roman"@sv
  • "Nostromo : Roman"
  • "Nostromo Roman"
  • "Nostromo : romanzo"@it
  • "Nostromo : romanzo"
  • "Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard - The Original Classic Edition"@en
  • "Nostromo (A Modern Library E-Book)"@en
  • "Nostromo : a tale of the seaboard. Introd. by Richard Curle"
  • "Nostromo : Román z pobřeží"
  • "Nostromo : relato del litoral"@es
  • "Nostromo : relato del litoral"
  • "Nostromo : roman"
  • "Nostromo : priče s morske obale"
  • "Nostromo. A tale of the Seaboard"
  • "Nostromo: a tale of the seaboard"@en
  • "Nostromo: a tale of the seaboard"
  • "Nostromo, a tale of the seaboard"
  • "Nostromo, a tale of the seaboard"@en
  • "Nostromo : a tale of seaboard"@en
  • "Nostromo : a tale of seaboard"
  • "Nostromo : mia istoria tēs aktēs"
  • "Nostromo; opowieść z wybrzeża"
  • "Nostromo : Relato de un litoral"
  • "Nostromo : Relato de un litoral"@ca
  • "Nostromo : Relato de un litoral"@es
  • "Nostromo : a tale of the seaboard"
  • "Nostromo : a tale of the seaboard"@en
  • "Nostromo; roman z pobřeži"
  • "Nostromo/ 2"
  • "Nostromo relato de un litoral"@es
  • "Nostromo. : A tale of the seaboard"
  • "Nostromo : [a tale of the seaboard]"
  • "Nostromo : [etc.]"@en
  • "Nostromo ; Tajny agent"
  • "Nostromo ; Tajny agent"@pl
  • "Nostromo. [1]"
  • "Nostromo"@ca
  • "Nostromo"@fi
  • "Nostromo"@pt
  • "Nostromo"@it
  • "Nostromo"@en
  • "Nostromo"@da
  • "Nostromo"
  • "Nostromo"@es
  • "Nostromo"@tr
  • "Nostromo"@pl
  • "Nostromo : tengerparti történet"
  • "Nostromo : tengerparti történet"@hu
  • "Nostromo : a tale of the seaboard by Joseph Conrad : screenplay"@en
  • "Nostromo : opowiesc z wybrzeza"
  • "Nostromo / Joseph Conrad"@en
  • "Nostromo : a tale of the seaboard. Introd. and notes by norman sherry"
  • "Nostromo : Relato de un Litoral"
  • "Nostromo eine Geschichte von der Küste ; Roman"
  • "Nostromo : a tal7e of the seaboard"
  • "Nostromo : a tale of the seaboard ; y Joseph Conrad"@en
  • "Nostromo, roman"
  • "Nostromo; a tale of the Seaboard"@en
  • "Nostromo a Tale of the Seaboard"@en
  • "Nostromo a Tale of the Seaboard"
  • "Nostromo. A tale of the seaboard. With a general introduction by Albert J. Guerard"@en
  • "Nostromo a tale of the Seaboard"
  • "Nostromo [dt.]"
  • "Nostromo : a Tale of the Seaboard"
  • "Nostromo : Joseph Conrad"
  • "Nostromo a tale of the seaboard"@en
  • "Nostromo a tale of the seaboard"
  • "Nostromo : a tale of the seabord"
  • "Nostromo : romanzo = (Nostromo)"
  • "Nostromo : a tale of the seabord"@ca
  • "Nostromo : relato de un litoral"
  • "Nostromo : relato de un litoral"@es
  • "Nostromo ... With a critical supplement"@en
  • "Nostromo = Nostromo : romanzo"@it
  • "Nostromo. 1"
  • "Nuo si tuo luo mo"
  • "Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard: Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Vronique Pauly (Penguin Classics)"
  • "Nosṭromo"
  • "Nostromo: a tale of the seaboard, introd"
  • "Nosŭt'romo / Nostromo / Joseph Conrad"
  • "Nostromo : [roman]"
  • "Nostromo, etc"@en
  • "Nostromo, etc"
  • "Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard"
  • "Nostromo a tale of the seabord"
  • "Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard"@en
  • "Hopealaiva = (Nostromo)"@fi
  • "Nostromo : a tale of the seaboard : screenplay"@en
  • "Nostromo : A tale fo the seaboard"@en
  • "Nostromo : Opowiesc Z Wybrezeza"
  • "Nostromo. ** [T. 2]"
  • "Nostromo : un relato del litoral"@es
  • "Nostromo a tale of the Seabord"
  • "Nostromo : román z pobřeží"
  • "NOSTROMO"
  • "Nustrumu"
  • "Nostromo : A tale of the seaboard"
  • "[Nostromo. A tale of the seaboard.]"@en
  • "[Nostromo. A tale of the seaboard.]"
  • "Nostromo. 2"
  • "Nostromo : eine Geschichte von der Küste"
  • "Nostromo : a tale of the Seaboard"
  • "Nostromo : Atale of the sea board"@en
  • "Nostromo opowieść z wybrzeża"
  • "Nostromo, a tale of the seaboard. [Collected ed.] Introd. and notes by Norman Sherry"@en
  • "Nostromo : relato de un Literal"@es
  • "Nostromo (a modern library e-book)"@en
  • "Nostromo : ˜a œtale of the Seaboard"
  • "Nostromo : a tale of seaboard. By Joseph Conrad"
  • "Nostromo Relato Del Litoral"
  • "... Nostromo; relato de un litoral"
  • "Nostromo A Tale of the Seaboard"
  • "Nostromo A Tale of the Seaboard"@en
  • "诺斯托罗莫"
  • "Nostromo, a tale of the seaboard, by Joseph Conrad"

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