Joseph Conrad

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Virginia

Returning to the steamy backwater of Costaguana in South America, Charles Gould is determined to make a success of the silver mine he inherited. However, his dreams of wealth and power are thwarted when the country is plunged into revolution.

Nostromo

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Joseph Conrad; Brent Hayes Edwards (Introduction by, Introductions and notes by)

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Louisiana

(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)Conrad's foresight and his ability to pluck the human adventure from complex historical circumstances were such that his greatest novel, Nostromo -- though nearly one hundred years old -- says as much about today's Latin America as any of the finest recent accounts of that region's turbulent political life. Insistently dramatic in its storytelling, spectacular in its recreation of the subtropical landscape, this picture of an insurrectionary society and the opportunities it provides for moral corruption gleams on every page with its author's dry, undeceived, impeccable intelligence.

"Nostromo offers an intensely pessimistic portrayal of morally empty politicians in a fictional South American nation called Costaguana. Wracked by greed and materialism, Conrad''s characters have good intentions that give way to unchecked self-interest. It''s monumental in scope, adventurous in spirit, and crammed with surprisingly progressive details and insights.

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Format - Paperback

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