Nostromo
1904 novel by Joseph Conrad / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the Joseph Conrad novel. For the fictional spacecraft, see Alien (film).
For other uses, see Nostromo (disambiguation).
Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard is a 1904 novel by Joseph Conrad, set in the fictitious South American republic of "Costaguana". It was originally published serially in monthly instalments of T.P.'s Weekly.
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Author | Joseph Conrad |
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Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Genre | Novel |
Publisher | Harper & Bros |
Publication date | 1904 |
Text | Nostromo at Wikisource |
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In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Nostromo 47th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. It is frequently regarded as amongst the best of Conrad's long fiction; F. Scott Fitzgerald once said, "I'd rather have written Nostromo than any other novel."[1]