In addition, a full historical list of variation is provided, allowing readers unprecedented access to thousands of alternative readings found in manuscripts, serialisations, proofs, and book editions.
The edition presents a reliable edition of Nostromo, correcting and recording errors in transmission and editorial intervention to produce a reading text as close as possible to the one that Conrad expected. This Critical edition of Nostromo follows the well-established procedures and organization of the other volumes in the acclaimed Cambridge University Press series, offering an authoritative critical text with an apparatus listing emendations and variants explanatory and textual notes a glossary of foreign terms appendices illustrations derived from the preprint documents and the historical texts and a map of Conrad’s Sulaco. Nostromo continues Conrad’s ‘major period’ with a political novel of terrorism and terrorists that resonates to this day. Works such as Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness, Nostromo, and The Secret Agent, are central to the modernist canon, and all have attracted significant critical and scholarly attention. Joseph Conrad is widely considered one of the most important novelists of the 20th century. The first of Conrad’s major political novels, Nostromo depicts the effects of repeated revolution in a fictional South American state under the growing influence of the United States of America in global economics and politics during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Unique in the history of Conrad’s works, the characters and world of Nostromo are drawn primarily from Conrad’s extensive reading rather than personal experience. Joseph Conrad’s Nostromo (1904) is widely considered Conrad’s modernist masterpiece.
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