NOSTROMO

A TALE OF THE SEABOARD


By Joseph Conrad




"So foul a sky clears not without a storm." --SHAKESPEARE




TO JOHN GALSWORTHY




AUTHOR'S NOTE


"_Nostromo_" is the most anxiously meditated of the longer novels which
belong to the period following upon the publication of the "Typhoon"
volume of short stories.

I don't mean to say that I became then conscious of any impending change
in my mentality and in my attitude towards the tasks of my writing
life. And perhaps there was never any change, except in that mysterious,