This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper. Numerous writers and critics have commented that his fictional works, written largely in the first two decades of the 20th century, seem to have anticipated later world events. Set against the lush landscape and turbulent politics of South America, Nostromo is a Conrad’s masterful tale of the power of money, its ability to corrupt, and the destruction it leaves behind. Conrad built the novel around the story of a man who, taking advantage of a local revolution, managed to escape with a lighter (a flat-bottomed barge) loaded with silver. Many dramatic films have been adapted from and inspired by his works. As Conrad points out in his foreword to the novel, Nostromo is loosely based on an anecdote he heard as a young man, while working in the Gulf of Mexico. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced numerous authors. Nostromo is one of Joseph Conrads longer novels, and one in which. Conrad is considered a literary impressionist by some and an early modernist by others, though his works also contain elements of 19th-century realism. A Thought Mine Novel About a Silver Mine. Writing near the peak of the British Empire, Conrad drew on the national experiences of his native Poland-during nearly all his life, parceled out among three occupying empires-and on his own experiences in the French and British merchant navies, to create short stories and novels that reflect aspects of a European-dominated world-including imperialism and colonialism-and that profoundly explore the human psyche.

Nostromo by joseph conrad