Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard – Joseph Conrad

Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard – Joseph Conrad

In its early editions of Nostromo, Joseph Conrad provides a rather detailed clarification of the artistic

origins of his novel. There he relates how, as a young man of about seventeen, while serving aboard

ship in the Gulf of Mexico, he heard the story of a man who had stolen, single-handedly, “a whole

lighter-full of silver”. As Conrad goes on to relate, he forgot about the story until some twenty-five

years later when he came across a travelogue in a used bookshop in which the author related how he

worked for years aboard a schooner whose master claimed to be that very thief who had stolen the

silver

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