NOSTROMO

Joseph Conrad was born in the Ukraine in 1857 and grew up under Tsarist autocracy. In 1874 Conrad travelled to Marseilles where he served in French merchant vessels before joining a British ship in 1878 as an apprentice. In 1886 he obtained British nationality. Eight years later he left the sea to devote himself to writing publishing his first novel Almayers Folly in 1895. The following year he settled in Kent where he produced within fifteen years such modern classics as Youth Heart of Darkness Lord Jim Typhoon Nostromo The Secret Agent and Under Western Eyes. He continued to write until his death in 1924.Nostromo published in 1904 is one of Conrads finest works. Nostromo though one hundred years old says as much about todays Latin America as any of the finest recent accounts of that regions turbulent political life. Insistently dramatic in its storytelling spectacular in its recreation of the subtropical landscape this picture of an insurrectionary society and the opportunities it provides for moral corruption gleams on every page with its authors dry undeceived impeccable intelligence.