Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard
1904
In the remote province of Sulaco, a silver mine holds a nation's fate hostage. When revolutionary turmoil engulfs Costaguana, foreign capitalists, local oligarchs, and idealists alike scramble for the luminous treasure buried in the mountains. At the center stands Nostromo, the Italian foreman whose legendary dependability makes him indispensable to Sulaco's elite. Yet beneath his reputation for incorruptible loyalty lies a secret that will destroy him. Conrad builds a devastating portrait of colonialism, showing how foreign capital and indigenous complicity corrupt everyone they touch. What begins as a tale of honor and fidelity curdles into something far darker: a study of how wealth warps human relationships, how the promise of prosperity becomes a curse upon the land. The silver that was supposed to save Sulaco instead consumes it. This is Conrad at his most ambitious, dismantling the myth of the trustworthy man to reveal the vanity and emptiness beneath.
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“I suppose everybody must be always just a little homesick.””
— Joseph Conrad
“There is no peace and no rest in the development of material interests. They have their law, and their justice. But it is founded on expediency, and is inhuman; it is without rectitude, without the continuity and the force that can be found only in a moral principle.””
— Joseph Conrad
“Government in general, any government anywhere, is a thing of exquisite comicality to a discerning mind.””
— Joseph Conrad
“He was ruined in every way, but a man possessed of passion is not a bankrupt in life.””
— Joseph Conrad
“A woman's true tenderness, like the true virility of man, is expressed in action of a conquering kind.””
— Joseph Conrad
“Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions. Only in the conduct of our action can we find the sense of mastery over the Fates.””
— Joseph Conrad
“She was highly gifted in the art of human intercourse which consists in delicate shades of self-forgetfulness and in the suggestion of universal comprehension.””
— Joseph Conrad
“The priests talk of consecrated ground! Bah! All the earth made by God is holy; but the sea, which knows nothing of kings and priests and tyrants, is the holiest of all.””
— Joseph Conrad
“...all this life, must be life, since it is so much like a dream.””
— Joseph Conrad
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