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Nostromo by Joseph Conrad

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Name: Joseph Conrad
Birth Date: December 3, 1857
Death Date: August 3, 1924
Place of Birth: Berdyczew, Poland
Place of Death: England
Nationality: English
Gender: Male
Occupations: writer, novelist

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Biography of Joseph Conrad
19918 words, approx. 66.4 pages
Joseph Conrad is now widely accepted as one of the modernist masters of serious narrative fiction. Historically placed, he is a major figure in the transition from Victorian fiction to the more perplexed forms and values of twentiethcentury literature. N...
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Biography of Joseph Conrad
19212 words, approx. 64 pages
Joseph Conrad is now widely accepted as one of the modernist masters of serious narrative fiction. Historically placed, he is a major figure in the transition from Victorian fiction to the more perplexed forms and values of twentieth-century literature....
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Biography of Joseph Conrad
12447 words, approx. 41.5 pages
The short fiction of Joseph Conrad is central to his literary achievement. Conrad wrote forty-three works of fiction, of which thirty-one are short, ranging from stories of a few pages to novellas of twenty-five thousand to fifty thousand words. His shor...
 


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Nostromo Information
685 words, approx. 2 pages
Nostromo is a 1904 novel by Polish-born British novelist Joseph Conrad, set in the fictitious South American republic of "Costaguana." It was originally published serially in two volumes of T.P.'s...


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Conradiana
Genuine Genoese Names in Nostromo.(Critical Essay)
06/22/1999: 4,630 words, approx. 15 pages
In a letter to Edward Garnett of 31 October 1904, Cunninghame Graham remarked that Conrad's new novel, which had just been issued in London by Harper, was "wonderful," but also that its title was "a damned bad name," and that the book ought...
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The Boston Globe
Conrad's `Nostromo' mines cycle of greed, misery
01/03/1997: 609 words, approx. 2 pages
Like rock stars and hemlines, "classic" novels come and go. "Nostromo," Joseph Conrad's 1904 tale of imperialist exploitation in the fictitious South American nation of Costaguana, once was ranked among the century's greatest English-language novels. Now one might have to attend grad school to...
 


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