Set in the sultry, fictional South American country of Costaguana, Joseph Conrad's compelling tale is a story of greed, corruption and power struggles.
Navigating his way through civil unrest is the charismatic and trusted figure of Nostromo, a longshoreman revered by many but never accepted as an equal by those in authority.
When rebels threaten the capital city, Sulaco, Nostromo is entrusted to spirit away a consignment of silver. But as the plan goes awry and his part in defeating the revolutionaries is unacknowledged, the seemingly incorruptible Nostromo decides to take his own reward - with tragic consequences.
Hailed by many authors, including F. Scott Fitzgerald, as a masterpiece, Nostromo is a bewitching and acute study of human nature
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Nacido en Ucrania de padres polacos, se nacionalizó inglés en 1886. Después de un largo período como marinero, empezó a escribir novelas y relatos. Su experiencia en alta mar se pone de manifiesto en muchas de sus páginas. Entre sus obras más famosas cabe destacar Lord Jim (1900), El corazón de las tinieblas (1902), Nostromo (1904) y El agente secreto (1907).
