The work grew from a projected short-story into his longest novel. It is like a kind of tomb which is also hell where one must write, write, write.” He was beset by gout, depression, and financial collapse. The composition was, even by Conrad’s standards, a ghastly ordeal: “I see nothing, I read nothing. Joseph Conrad wrote Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard between 19, the year of its publication, in the middle of his “major phase.” Lord Jim ( 1900), Heart of Darkness ( 1899 1902), and two collaborations with Ford Madox Hueffer were behind him The Secret Agent ( 1907) lay ahead. “It is, in my view, the masterwork of that ‘puissant rêveur,’ as Gustav Kahn once called Conrad….one of the few mastering visions of our historical moment and our human lot.”-Robert Penn Warren “ne of the finest of all English historical novels”-Terry Eagleton. “The greatest novel in English of this century”-Walter Allen. “I’d rather have written Conrad’s Nostromo than any other novel”-F.
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