Nostromo

by Joseph Conrad

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1904

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The Modern Library's 100 Best Novels (The Board's List, 47)

The Observer's 100 Greatest Novels of All Time (2003)

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From an anecdote and a brief visit to Venezuela, Conrad derived the exotic scenery of the province of Sulaco and its rootless mixed-race society. In this shadowy setting, Nostromo (1904) enacts an intense moral drama of dictatorship and revolutionary violence, of corrosive materialism and the voracity of "progress."

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