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Nostromo
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Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard (1904) is a novel by Joseph Conrad, set in the fictitious South American republic of "Costaguana". First serialized in monthly installments of ''T.P.'s Weekly'', in 1998 it was ranked 47th on the Modern Library 100 Best Novels in 20th-century English. It is often considered Conrad's best work of long fiction, and F. Scott Fitzgerald famously said, "I'd rather have written Nostromo than any other novel."
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- Author
- Joseph Conrad
- First published
- 1900
- Editions
- 255
- Subjects
- Fiction, Revolutions, Revolutions in fiction, Sailors, Sailors in fiction, Latin America in fiction, English Sea stories, Classic Literature
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- Book.name
- Nostromo
- Book.image
- Nostromo1st.jpg
- Book.caption
- First US edition
- Book.author
- Joseph Conrad
- Book.country
- United Kingdom
- Book.language
- English
- Book.genre
- Novel
- Book.publisher
- Harper & Bros
- Book.release_date
- 1904
- Book.wikisource
- Nostromo
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- Nostromo1st.jpg
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- title
- Nostromo
- subtitle
- A Tale of the Seaboard
- publication date
- 1904-00-00
- Library of Congress Classification (works and editions)
- PR6005.O4 N578 1904
- Dewey Decimal Classification (works and editions)
- 823.912
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10 sectionsContents
- Background
- Plot summary
- Major characters
- Adaptations and translations
- References in other works
- See also
- References
- Notes
- Bibliography
- External links
Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard (1904) is a novel by Joseph Conrad, set in the fictitious South American republic of "Costaguana". First serialized in monthly installments of ''T.P.'s Weekly'', in 1998 it was ranked 47th on the Modern Library 100 Best Novels in 20th-century English. It is often considered Conrad's best work of long fiction, and F. Scott Fitzgerald famously said, "I'd rather have written Nostromo than any other novel."
==Background== Conrad set his novel in the town of Sulaco, a port in the western region of the imaginary country Costaguana.