Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard

Joseph Conrad

Jun 2023 · Cambridge University Press

About this ebook

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edition offers an introduction clarifying the novel's origins and sources, while explanatory notes detail literary and historical references.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.

About the author

Roger Osborne is Associate Professor at James Cook University, Australia. His research concentrates on Australian literature and British modernism seen through the lens of book history, magazine culture and scholarly editing. He is a contributing editor to the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad. Roger completed his first edition, Under Western Eyes, in 2013. His work on the trans-national nature of Australian print culture has been published widely, and his co-authored book, Australian Books and Authors in the American Marketplace 1840s–1940s, the first of two projected volumes, was published in 2018.

Hugh Epstein is the Secretary of the Joseph Conrad Society (UK). He has contributed numerous journal articles on Conrad and on Hardy and has spoken at many conferences worldwide on both authors. His book Hardy, Conrad and the Senses was published in 2020.