Nostromo : a tale of the seaboard

Set in the fictional South American country of Costaguana, Nostromo explores the volatile politics and crippling greed surrounding the San Tome silver mine.

This story of power, love, revolution, loyalty and reward is told with richly evocative description and brilliantly realised characters.

But Nostromo is more than an adventure story; it is also a profoundly dark moral fable.

Its language is as compellingly resonant as the sea itself; the characters absorbing and complex.

It was Conrad's masterwork and a forerunner of Modernism.