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Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard

Autor Joseph Conrad Antony Ferguson
en Limba Engleză CD-Audio – feb 2011
One of the greatest political novels in any language, Nostromo reenacts the establishment of modern capitalism in a remote South American province locked between the Andes and the Pacific. In Sulaco, a harbor town in the imaginary South American republic of Costaguana, a vivid cast of characters is caught up in a civil war to decide whether its fabulously wealthy silver mine, funded by American money but owned by a third-generation English immigrant, can be preserved from the hands of venal politicians. Greed and corruption seep into the lives of everyone, and Nostromo, the principled foreman of the mine, is tested to the limit.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781452650296
ISBN-10: 1452650292
Dimensiuni: 132 x 192 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.12 kg
Ediția:Completă
Editura: TANTOR MEDIA INC

Recenzii

"I had always thought that there were books you read to entertain yourself and classic books to educate you, but with Nostromo I realised a book could be both." ---Billy Ivory, Nottingham Evening Post

Notă biografică

Josef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski was born in 1857 in the Russian part of Poland. His parents were punished for their Polish nationalist activities, and the family was exiled to northern Russia. At age twelve, after both of his parents had died of tuberculosis, Conrad was sent to live with his uncle in Switzerland. During his youth he attended schools in Krakow, was involved in arms smuggling for the Carlist cause in Spain, and joined the French merchant marine. Conrad continued his naval career for sixteen years in the British merchant navy, and in 1886, he commanded his own ship, the Otago. In that same year, he became a British citizen and changed his name to Joseph Conrad.Conrad sailed to many parts of the world, including Australia, the West Indies, South America, and the Congo River. It was during theses long journeys that he started to write. At age thirty-six, Conrad ended his sea career, devoted himself entirely to literature, and settled in England. Two years later, he married an Englishwoman, by whom he had two sons. Despite the immediate critical recognition of his major novels, they did not sell well. The family lived in relative poverty until the commercial success of Chance in 1913. Having finally received acclaim, he was offered a knighthood in 1923, which he declined. Conrad died of a heart attack one year later.Conrad crystallized his often quoted goal as a writer: "My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel-it is, above all, to make you see. That-and no more, and it is everything."Conrad's works of extreme subtlety, sophistication, and technical complexities-and the unprecedented way in which he communicates a pessimist's view of man's personal and social destiny-established him as one of the first English "modernists." Critics consider him to be the single most important innovator of twentieth-century literature.Many of Conrad's novels drew material, events, and personalities from his own experiences in different parts of the world. His most popular works are Heart of Darkness (influenced by his journey up the Congo River, where he learned about atrocities made by Congo "explorers"), Lord Jim (drawn from his career in the British navy), and Nostromo. Conrad's novels had a significant impact on other twentieth-century writers, including Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Eliot, Sartre, and Greene. Several of Conrad's stories have been made into films, most notably Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now, based on Heart of Darkness, and Alfred Hitchcock's The Sabotage, based on The Secret Agent. Antony Ferguson is a native of London, England. He is a classically trained actor and has appeared in numerous productions in London, Off Broadway, and Regional theater. As a voice actor, he has over fifty audiobooks to his credit and was recommended by the "All About Romance" Web site as one of the best male narrators at performing female characters. He lives in Los Angeles.

Descriere

One of Joseph Conrad's greatest works, Nostromo is a gripping tale of capitalist exploitation and rebellion that employs flashbacks and glimpses of the future to depict the lure of silver and its effects on men.