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Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard
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| Added by: frelome | Karma: 98.70 | Fiction literature | 2 July 2009 |
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 I don’t mean to say that I became then conscious of any impending change in my mentality and in my attitude towards the tasks of my writing life. Perhaps there was never any change extraneous thing which has nothing to do with the theories of art; a subtle change in the nature of the inspiration; a phenomenon for which I can not in any way be held responsible. What, however, did cause me some concern was that after finishing the last story of the ‘Typhoon’ volume it seemed somehow that there was nothing more in the world to write about. |
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| Tags: change, there, Nostromo, which, Seaboard, nothing, after |
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Nostromo (Barnes & Noble Classics)
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| Added by: stovokor | Karma: 1758.60 | Fiction literature | 2 January 2009 |
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 One of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, Joseph Conrad’s Nostromo is an immensely exciting tale of love, revolution, and politics set in the mythical South American country of Costaguana during the 1890s.
Joseph Conrad, born Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, (1857-1924) was a Polish-born novelist who spent most of his adult life in Britain. He is regarded as one of the greatest English novelists, which is even more notable because he did not learn to speak English well until he was in his 20s. He is recognized as a master prose stylist. Some of his works have a strain of romanticism, but more importantly he is recognized as an important forerunner of modernist literature. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many writers, including Ernest Hemingway, D.H. Lawrence and Graham Greene. Writing during the apogee of the British Empire, Conrad drew upon his experiences in the British Merchant Navy to create novels and short stories that reflected aspects of a world-wide empire while also plumbing the depths of the human soul. Amongst his best known works are Heart of Darkness (1899), Lord Jim (1900), Under Western Eyes (1911), Victory (1915) and The Rescue (1920). |
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| Tags: silver, Nostromo, Costaguana, Gould, forces |
