Nostromo | Literary Precedents
While the political novels of Anthony Trollope may serve as remote backgrounds for Conrad's attempt to explore in novelistic form the effects of a revolution upon people of various social strata, his most proximate source was Frederick Benton Williams' On Many Seas: The Life and Exploits of a Yankee Sailor which contains the story of a single-handed theft of a boat-load of silver ingots during a Latin-American revolution, a story Conrad had himself heard on his voyage in the Gulf of Mexico in the mid 1870s. Stylistically his own Lord Jim is the precedent for...
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