Jonesy: Nine Lives on the Nostromo

Author: Rory Lucey
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 178565926X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A FULLY ILLUSTRATED, HUMOROUS GIFT BOOK FOR FANS OF THE ALIEN FRANCHISE Aboard the USCSS Nostromo, Jonesy leads a simple life enjoying The Company cat food and chasing space rodents. Until one day, his cryostasis catnap is rudely interrupted. The humans have a new pet and it's definitely not house-trained. In space, no one can hear you meow. This full-color, illustrated book offers a cat's eye view of all the action from the movie Alien. With new and original artwork by artist Rory Lucey, this is the perfect gift for all Alien fans (and cat lovers).

Nostromo

Author: Joseph Conrad
Publisher: Livraria Press
ISBN: 3989886002
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 296

Book Description
A new edition of Joseph Conrad's classic novel Nostromo from Livraria Press with an extensive Afterword and expanded reference materials including a character list and discussion questions. Nostromo by Joseph Conrad is a classic novel of adventure and intrigue set against the backdrop of the late 19th century. Set in the fictional twilight country of Costaguana, the novel follows the story of Charles Gould, a wealthy mine owner, and his struggles to protect his family and his fortune in a world of political instability, greed, and betrayal. Even though it is shadowed by Heart of Darkness, Nostromo offers a vivid, powerful and nuanced portrayal of the complex and often fraught relationships between individuals, societies, and the natural world. With its themes of isolation, power, and the human condition, Nostromo is a timeless classic that remains as relevant and thought-provoking today as it was when it was first published over a century ago.

Nostromo

Author: Joseph Conrad
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 564

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Conrad: Nostromo

Author: Ian Watt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521313650
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 124

Book Description
Ian Watt addresses Conrad's great novel by providing an accessible introduction analysing the background, history and politics.

A Concordance to Conrad's Nostromo

Author: James W. Parins
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000042618
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408

Book Description
Originally published in 1984, this volume follows others in the series. By looking up a word in the word frequency table, the user can find how often it occurs in the text. The verbal index indicates at what page and line the word occurs so that the user can turn to the field of reference to see the word in each of its contexts. This volume is part of a series which produced verbal indexes, concordances, and related data for all of Conrad’s works.

The Return of the Soldier

Author: Rebecca West
Publisher:
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Category : Man-woman relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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The Secret Agent

Author: Christopher Hampton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571190263
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 202

Book Description
This volume contains both screenplays based on the novels of the same name by Joseph Conrad.

Heart of Darkness and The Secret Sharer

Author: Joseph Conrad
Publisher: Bantam Classics
ISBN: 055389854X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 205

Book Description
Heart Of Darkness. The story of the civilized, enlightened Mr. Kurtz who embarks on a harrowing "night journey" into the savage heart of Africa, only to find his dark and evil soul. The Secret Sharer. The saga of a young, inexperienced skipper forced to decide the fate of a fugitive sailor who killed a man in self-defense. As he faces his first moral test the skipper discovers a terrifying truth -- and comes face to face with the secret itself. Heart Of Darkness and The Secret Sharer draw on actual events and people that Conrad met or heard about during his many far-flung travels. In portraying men whose incredible journeys on land and at sea are also symbolic voyages into their own mysterious depths, these two masterful works give credence to Conrad's acclaim as a major psychological writer.

The Secret History of Costaguana

Author: Juan Gabriel Vasquez
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101535245
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 220

Book Description
"A potent mixture of history, fiction and literary gamesmanship." —Los Angeles Times "A cunning tribute to a classic." —Wall Street Journal "[A] post-modern literary revenge story.” —The New York Times An ingenious novel of historical invention from the global literary star author of The Sound of Things Falling. On the day of Joseph Conrad's death in 1924, the Colombian-born José Altamirano begins to write and cannot stop. Many years before, he confessed to Conrad his life's every delicious detail—from his country's heroic revolutions to his darkest solitary moments. Those intimate recollections became Nostromo, a novel that solidified Conrad’s fame and turned Altamirano’s reality into a work of fiction. Now Conrad is dead, but the slate is by no means clear—Nostromo will live on and Altamirano must write himself back into existence. As the destinies of real empires collide with the murky realities of imagined ones, Vásquez takes us from a flourishing twentieth-century London to the lawless fury of a blooming Panama and back in a labyrinthine quest to reclaim the past—of both a country and a man.