
The Secret Agent
Joseph Conrad(Author)
Oxford University Press
Published on 1. June 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
300 pages
978-0-19-280169-2 (ISBN)
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Description
'An impenetrable mystery seems destined to hang for ever over this act of madness or despair.' Mr Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London's Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her infirm mother, and her idiot brother, Stevie. When Verloc is reluctantly involved in an anarchist plot to blow up the Greenwich Observatory things go disastrously wrong, and what appears to be 'A Simple Tale' proves to involve politicians, policemen, foreign diplomats and London's fashionable society in the darkest and most surprising interrelations. Based on the text which Conrad's first English readers enjoyed, this new edition includes a critical introduction which describes Conrad's great London novel as the realization of a 'monstrous town', a place of idiocy, madness, criminality, and butchery.
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Readers and students of literary fiction, twentieth-century fiction, Conrad, the novel. English Literature
Edition type
New edition
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Dimensions
Height: 196 mm
Width: 129 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-19-280169-2 (9780192801692)
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06/2008
Oxford University Press
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JOHN LYON, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Bristol