Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard

A pessimistic novel about political power in a Latin American country, and the inhumanity and brutality that result when ideals and reality clash. NOSTROMO is considered by many to be Conrad`s greatest novel. It was one he hesitated to write, he says in the introduction,

as if warned by the instinct of self-preservation from venturing on a distant and toilsome journey into a land full of intrigues and revolutions.

But, he concludes,

It had to be done.