Nostromo

Nostromo
de Joseph Conrad

416 pp.
Wordsworth Editions, 1996
9781853261749

Nostromo is the only man capable of the decisive action needed to save the silver of the San Tome mine and secure independence for Sulaco. Is his integrity as unassailable as everyone believes, or will his ideals, like those which have inspired the struggling state itself, buckle under economic and political pressures?