Nostromo: A Tale of a Seaboard Contributor(s): Conrad, Joseph (Author) |
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ISBN: 1950330214 ISBN-13: 9781950330218 Publisher: Ancient Wisdom Publications OUR PRICE: $22.75 Product Type: Hardcover Published: April 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Sea Stories |
Dewey: FIC |
Lexile Measure: 1160 |
Physical Information: 0.94" H x 6" W x 9" (1.55 lbs) 364 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: In his "Author's Note" in this edition of Nostromo, Joseph Conrad provides a detailed explanation of the inspirational origins of his novel. There he relates how, as a young man of about seventeen, while serving aboard a ship in the Gulf of Mexico, he heard the story of a man who had stolen, single-handedly, "a whole lighter-full of silver". As Conrad goes on to relate, he forgot about the story until some twenty-five years later when he came across a travelogue in a used-book shop in which the author related how he worked for years aboard a schooner whose master claimed to be that very thief who had stolen the silver. |