Originally published as a serial,Nostromois set in a fictional South American country where the outbreak of civil war puts the mining town of Sulaco in turmoil. Giovanni Battista Fidanza, known as Nostromo, is given the task of smuggling out a large amount of silver to keep it from the revolutionaries.
Conradwas inspired to write the book when he read, in a sailor’s memoir, the tale of a man who singlehandedly stole...
