Nostromo
Around the figure ofNostromo, Conrad spins a story about revolution, politics, an racial conflicts as complex as Nostromo, the man whose greatest enemy is himself. Heading the Gould Concession, the imperialistic silver mine, which runs the country's economy, is the somewhat idealistid Englishman Charles Gould, and his American financier, Holroyd, who sees the slave economy as a higher form of social Darwinism, "a pure form of Christianity." Opposing Gould is the cynical Frenchman, who claims to belive in nothing but "the truth of his sensations."
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- ISBN: 9781449878498
- Physical Description 1 audio file (15 hr., 45 min.) : digital.
- Edition Unabridged.
- Publisher Prince Frederick, Md. : Recorded Books ; 2011.
- Copyright ℗1987
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General Note: | Downloadable audio file. Title from title screen (viewed March 3, 2011). GMD: electronic resource. |
Restrictions on Access Note: | Access restricted to subscribing institutions. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Narrated by Frank Muller. |
Additional Physical Form available Note: | Downloadable applications available for access via iOS 4.0+ devices (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch) and Android 2.1+ devices. |
System Details Note: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. Requires OneClick Digital Media Manager. System requirements: 200 MB of free disk space, 512 MB of RAM, Windows Installer 3.1, Microsoft .NET Framework 4 (x86 and x64), Windows Media Player 10 QA. |
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Nostromo : A Tale of the Seaboard
"In 1875 or '76, when very young, in the Gulf of Mexico, I heard the story of some man who was supposed to have stolen single-handed a whole lighter full of silver, somewhere on the Tierra Firme seaboard during the troubles of a revolution." From these slim details Conrad builds one of the great novels of our language and creates one of its most enigmatic central characters: Nostromo.