Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard (Everyman's Library CLASSICS)

Conrad, Joseph

ISBN 10: 1857150880 / ISBN 13: 9781857150889

Edité par Everyman's Library, 1992

N° de réf. du vendeur GOR010697874

Synopsis :

Conrad's foresight and his ability to pluck the human adventure from complex historical circumstances were such that his greatest novel, Nostromo - though over one hundred years old - says as much about today's Latin America as any of the finest recent accounts of that region's turbulent political life. Insistently dramatic in its storytelling, spectacular in its recreation of the subtropical landscape, this picture of an insurrectionary society and the opportunities it provides for moral corruption gleams on every page with its author's dry, undeceived, impeccable intelligence.

À propos de l?auteur: Józef Teodor Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowski was born in the Ukraine on 3 December 1857. His parents were Polish and had both died in exile by the time Conrad was eleven. His uncle then became his guardian and looked after him in Krakow until he was sixteen when he went to sea and sailed on French and British ships. He was made British citizen in 1886 and changed his name to Joseph Conrad. In 1889 Conrad visited the Congo and his experiences there inspired Heart of Darkness. In 1894 he published his first novel, Almayer's Folly and went on to write nineteen more as well as many short stories, essays and a memoir. In 1896 he married Jessie George and they later had two sons. Conrad died on 3 August 1924.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard (Everyman's...
Éditeur : Everyman's Library
Date d'édition : 1992
Reliure : Hardback
Etat : Fine