Conrad/ Anthony - Conrad, Joseph : Nostromo

Set in the fictional South American country of Costaguana, Nostromo explores the volatile politics and crippling greed surrounding the San Tom silver mine. The story of power, love, revolutions, loyalty and reward is told with richly evocative description and brilliantly realized characters. But Nostromo is more than an adventure story; it is also a profoundly dark moral fable. It's language is as compellingly resonant as the sea itself; the characters absorbing and complex. It was Conrad's masterwork, a forerunner of Modernism, and one of the greatest novels of the twentieth cent.