Nostromo is a famous novel written by Joseph Conrade.In 1998,it was ranked 47th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century the Modern Library . F. Scott Fitzgerald said, " I’d rather have written Nostromo than any other novel."

Nostromo (full title Nostromo, A Tale of the Seaboard) is a 1904 novel by Polish novelist Joseph Conrad, set in the fictitious South American republic of "Costaguana". It was originally published serially in two volumes of T.P.’s Weekly. Conrad set his novel in the mining town of Sulaco, an imaginary port in the occidental region of the imaginary country of Costaguana. 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.

Joseph Conrad（3 December 1857 – 3 August 1931) was a Polish author who wrote in English after settling in England.He wrote stories and novels, often with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of an indifferent universe. He was a master prose stylist who brought a distinctly non-English sensibility into English literature.