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The Annotated Nostromo

The complete text of Joseph Conrad's Nostromo, with my annotations.

Scroll down for a key to the annotation types.

Warning to first-time readers!
Because the annotations discuss the novel as a whole, they contain spoilers that reveal crucial plot points in advance. For that reason I highly recommend that people who have never read Nostromo read it for the first time elsewhere.

 

Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Chapter 1
Chapter 1
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 2
Chapter 2
Chapter3
Chapter 3
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 4
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 5
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 6
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 7
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 8
Chapter 8
 
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Author's Note

 

Key to the Annotations

Chapter 1

Chapter numbers. Click for a summary of the chapter.
Yellow highlight An annotation. Click the highlighted text.
Blue highlights An annotation that applies to two or more text selections. Click either piece of highlighed text.
Two or more different annotations very close together. Click either an arrow or the highlighted text.
An annotation inside another annotation. Click the arrow.
A general annotation. Click the button.

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and may not be reproduced in any way without explicit written permission.