Nostromo

According to Wikipedia: "e;Nostromo is a 1904 novel by Polish-born British novelist Joseph Conrad, set in the fictitious South American republic of "e;Costaguana"e;.

It was originally published serially in two volumes of T.P.'s Weekly.

In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Nostromo 47th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.

F. Scott Fitzgerald said, "e;I'd rather have written Nostromo than any other novel."e;