This article is about a Joseph Conrad novel. For spacecraft in the film Alien, see Nostromo . For other uses, see nostromo . Nostromo is a 1904 novel by Polish-born British novelist Joseph Conrad, set in the fictitious South American republic of "Costaguana." It was originally published serial in two volumes of T.P.'s Weekly. Background Conrad sets his novel in the mining town of Sulaco, an imaginary port in the occidental region of the imaginary country of Costaguana. This town and its denizens are believed by many to be among Conrad's greatest literary creations. The book has more fully-developed characters than any other of his novels, but two characters dominate the narrative: Señor Gould, and the eponymous anti-hero, the "incorruptible" Nostromo. Plot summary Señor Gould is an English expatriate who owns the silver-mining concession in Sulac

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