Nostromo : A Tale Of A Seaboard

In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Nostromo 47th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. It is frequently regarded as amongst the best of Conrad's long fiction; F. Scott Fitzgerald once said, "I'd rather have written Nostromo than any other novel."In his "Author's Note" to early editions of Nostromo, Joseph Conrad provides a detailed explanation of the inspirational origins of his novel. There he relates how, as a young man of about seventeen, while serving aboard a ship in the Gulf of Mexico, he heard the story of a man who had stolen, single-handedly, "a whole lighter-full of silver". As Conrad goes on to relate, he forgot about the story until some twenty-five years later when he came across a travelogue in a used-book shop in which the author related how he worked for years aboard a schooner whose master claimed to be that very thief who had stolen the silver.

• | Author: Joseph Conrad
• | Publisher: Ancient Wisdom Publications
• | Publication Date: Apr 17, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 364 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1950330214
• | ISBN-13: 9781950330218