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Nostromo
Nostromo
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Category :  Classics
 
Publisher :  Blackstone Audio Inc
Author :  Joseph Conrad
Narrator :  John Lee
 
Length :  17 hours 16 minutes (Unabridged)
 
Download Price :  $27.99
 
Format :  Downloadable MP3
 
Public Domain
 
© 2010 Blackstone Audio Inc
"I'd rather have written Conrad's Nostromo than any other novel."—F. Scott Fitzgerald   Joseph Conrad’s multilayered masterpiece tells of one nation's violent revolution and one hero's moral degeneration. Conrad convincingly invents an entire country, Costaguana, and sets it afire as warlords compete for power and a fortune in silver.   Señor Gould, adamant that his silver should not become spoil for his enemies, entrusts it to his faithful longshoreman, Nostromo, a local hero of sorts whom Señor Gould believes to be incorruptible. Nostromo accepts the mission as an opportunity to increase his own fame. But when his exploit fails to win him the rewards he had hoped for, he is consumed by a corrupting resentment.   Nostromo, relevant both as literature and as a brilliant social study, ambitiously brings to life Latin American history and the politics of an underdeveloped country.  
 

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