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Set in the fictional South American country of Costaguana, Nostromo explores the volatile politics and crippling greed surrounding the San Tomé silver mine. The story of power, love, revolutions, 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, a forerunner of Modernism, and one of the greatest novels of the 20th century.

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Public Domain (P)2008 Naxos AudioBooks Classics European Literary History & Criticism World Literature Imperialism
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I already knew the book well. Although this reading is highly praised, I did tire of the foreign accents after a while. I also found Mrs Gould's voice annoyingly weak. but these are minor matters in a good overall reading.

a good reading, but I was distracted by the accent

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Conrad's masterful use of the English language is wonderfully interpreted by Nigel Anthony in his reading of Nostromo.

The Master of Language

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Audiobooks made this classic come alive. I could both sense and see the time and place, a masterful production -brilliant.

A MASTERPIECE

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This is a book of such depth, grace and passion. Despite being written in 1904, Nostromo still presents a fresh thought provoking story. The story starts slow but you will be rewarded by sticking with it and will come to the point where will not be able to put it down. The characters are of incredible depth and complexity and the story is timeless.

The narration is ideal for the story and is superb.

There is a reason this book is in the top 100 modern library choices, and this performance brings out the story in its fullness.

Rarely do you find a book of this quality and dept

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Walter Allen in ‘The English Novel’ says, “. . . . a good case could be made out for considering it the greatest novel in English of this century”. Arnold Bennett regarded it as ‘one of the greatest novels of any age”, Conrad’s biographer compared it to ‘War and Peace’ and F.R.Leavis admired it greatly, but I just don’t see it, I have to say. Of course, it is well written, but it would definitely not be in my ‘Top 10’.

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