Nostromo published in 1904 is one of Conrad's finest works. Nostromo -- though one hundred
years old -- says as much about today's Latin America as any of the finest recent accounts of
that region's turbulent political life. Insistently dramatic in its storytelling spectacular
in its recreation of the subtropical landscape this picture of an insurrectionary society and
the opportunities it provides for moral corruption gleams on every page with its author's dry
undeceived impeccable intelligence.
