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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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Key facts
- 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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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- literary work
- Author
- Joseph Conrad
- Genre
- historical fiction
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Image
- Nostromo1st.jpg
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- title
- Nostromo
- subtitle
- A Tale of the Seaboard
- language of work or name
- English language
- publication date
- 1904-00-00
- different from
- USCSS Nostromo
- copyright status
- public domain
- set in environment
- fictional country
- form of creative work
- novel
- Library of Congress Classification (works and editions)
- PR6005.O4 N578 1904
- Dewey Decimal Classification (works and editions)
- 823.912
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nostromo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.