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Nostromo

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Silver, revolution, reputation, and political ambition reshape the imagined republic of Costaguana.

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Nostromo

Nostromo centers on the San Tome silver mine and the port of Sulaco, where foreign capital, local revolution, personal pride, and public myth become inseparable. Conrad builds a vast political novel around Charles Gould, Nostromo, Decoud, and a country whose fate is tied to wealth, violence, and illusion.

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Joseph Conrad died in 1924, and Nostromo was first published in 1904. These dates support the public-domain basis for the original English text used in this edition.

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Nostromo

Preview chapterA TALE OF THE SEABOARDPreview

By Joseph Conrad

“So foul a sky clears not without a storm.” --SHAKESPEARE

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TO JOHN GALSWORTHY

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  1. 01Full text
  2. 02A TALE OF THE SEABOARD
  3. 03TO JOHN GALSWORTHY
  4. 04AUTHOR’S NOTE
  5. 05volume of short stories.
  6. 06part of the world and both connected with a South American revolution.
  7. 07J. C.
  8. 08CHAPTER TWO
  9. 09CHAPTER THREE
  10. 10CHAPTER FOUR
  11. 11part of the landscape embracing the glitter of the harbour under
  12. 12CHAPTER FIVE
  13. 13CHAPTER SIX
  14. 14CHAPTER SEVEN
  15. 15CHAPTER EIGHT
  16. 16PART SECOND THE ISABELS
  17. 17CHAPTER ONE
  18. 18CHAPTER TWO
  19. 19parties of the enemy raiding the country between the Cordillera and
  20. 20CHAPTER THREE
  21. 21CHAPTER FOUR
  22. 22CHAPTER FIVE
  23. 23CHAPTER SIX
  24. 24CHAPTER SEVEN
  25. 25CHAPTER EIGHT
  26. 26PART THIRD THE LIGHTHOUSE
  27. 27CHAPTER ONE
  28. 28act that promised him safety on other than venal grounds. Ribierism has
  29. 29CHAPTER TWO
  30. 30part--pretending fear and distraction on the spur of the moment to
  31. 31CHAPTER THREE
  32. 32partly reclaimed from his abased state. That feeling led him to ask--
  33. 33bandit saw the irony of it. Father Corbelan must have found messengers
  34. 34CHAPTER FOUR
  35. 35CHAPTER FIVE
  36. 36CHAPTER SIX
  37. 37CHAPTER SEVEN
  38. 38CHAPTER EIGHT
  39. 39CHAPTER NINE
  40. 40CHAPTER TEN
  41. 41bandit of whom Europe had heard with interest. He put on a high-crowned
  42. 42partly from conviction of utter uselessness of all effort. Now she
  43. 43CHAPTER ELEVEN
  44. 44CHAPTER TWELVE
  45. 45CHAPTER THIRTEEN

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