Nostromo - Joseph Conrad

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Résumé :
About the Book: Nostromo Nostromo is Joseph Conrad's masterly tale of corruptionand politics. The nation of Costaguana is beset by dictatorship, corruptionand misrule. When Charles Gould's silver mine is threatened bysquabbling warlords and ruthless revolutionaries, he calls on thehelp of the seemingly-incorruptible Nostromo to protect hisinterests. But will Nostromo be able to succeed at this task, orwill he fall victim to his own machinations? About the Author: Joseph Conrad Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) was a Polish-born English novelist andmaster mariner. Also available by the same author as part of theRupa Classics Library: Nigger of the Narcissus, Typhoon and Shadow Line.

Biographie:
Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924) was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. He joined the British merchant marine in 1878, and was granted British citizenship in 1886. Though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he was a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. He wrote stories and novels, many with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of an impassive, inscrutable universe. Conrad is considered an early modernist, though his works still contain elements of 19th-century realism. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced numerous authors and many films have been adapted from, or inspired by, his works. Writing in the heyday of the British Empire, Conrad drew on his native Poland's national experiences and his own experiences in the French and British merchant navies, to create short stories and novels that reflect aspects of a European-dominated world-including imperialism and colonialism-and that profoundly explore the human psyche....