Nostromo

Nostromo
First US edition
AuthorJoseph Conrad
LanguageEnglish
GenreNovel
PublisherHarper & Bros
Publication date
1904
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
TextNostromo at Wikisource

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.

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]

  1. ^ Watt, Ian. Conrad: Nostromo (Landmarks of World Literature), Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1988, p. 1.