Nostromo

In the fictional South American republic of Costaguana, a revolution swirls around a great silver mine and the incorruptible dockworker Nostromo, whose fate becomes bound to a fortune in silver that slowly corrupts everyone it touches. Conrad’s vast, ambitious masterpiece weaves together idealists, cynics, and adventurers in a searing study of politics, greed, and the illusions of material progress. Widely regarded as one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, Nostromo builds a whole imagined nation with astonishing depth. Complex, panoramic, and profoundly pessimistic about power and money, it is Conrad’s most monumental achievement, a dark epic of ambition and the human cost of wealth.