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Joseph Conrad
NOSTROMO: A TALE OF THE SEABOARD
An Intriguing Story of Revolution and Betrayal
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2017 OK Publishing
ISBN 978-80-272-0084-9
Table of Contents
Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard
A Personal Record; or Some Reminiscences
Joseph Conrad (A Biography) by Hugh Walpole
Joseph Conrad by John Albert Macy
A Conrad Miscellany by John Albert Macy
Joseph Conrad by Virginia Woolf
NOSTROMO:
A TALE OF THE SEABOARD
"So foul a sky clears not without a storm." —SHAKESPEARE
TO JOHN GALSWORTHY
PART FIRST: THE SILVER OF THE MINE
AUTHOR'S NOTE
"Nostromo" is the most anxiously meditated of the longer novels which belong to the period following upon the publication of the "Typhoon" volume of short stories.
I don't mean to say that I became then conscious of any impending change in my mentality and in my attitude towards the tasks of my writing life. And perhaps there was never any change, except in that mysterious, extraneous thing which has nothing to do with the theories of art; a subtle change in the nature of the inspiration;