Nostromo
A Tale of the Seaboard

The first comprehensive and authoritative critical edition of Conrad's Nostromo, featuring an introduction and informative textual essay.

Joseph Conrad (Author), Roger Osborne (Edited by), Hugh Epstein (Edited by)

9781108835510, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 29 June 2023

850 pages
22.3 x 14.7 x 5.2 cm, 1.2 kg

Joseph Conrad's Nostromo (1904) is widely considered his modernist masterpiece. The first of his major political novels, it depicts the effects of repeated revolution in a fictional South American state under the growing influence of the United States of America. It is an enduring portrait of global economics and politics during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This first comprehensive and authoritative critical edition offers an introduction clarifying the novel's origins and sources, while explanatory notes detail literary and historical references. An accompanying essay lays out the history of composition and publication, detailing interventions made by Conrad's editors. Also included are appendices of Conrad's source material; glossaries of nautical and foreign terms; a map; and reproductions of early drafts. By returning to (and respecting) Conrad's own early manuscript and typescript forms, this edition presents the novel and its preface in a form more authoritative than any so far.

List of illustrations
General editors' preface
Acknowledgements
Chronology
Abbreviations and note on editions
Introduction
Nostromo, A Tale of the Seaboard
The texts: an essay
Apparatus
Textual notes
Appendices
Explanatory notes
Glossaries
Map.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: from c 1900 - [DSBH]