The Secret Agent
A Simple Tale
1st Edition
Published on 25. May 1990
469 pages
978-1-107-29890-3 (ISBN)
Description
The Secret Agent (1907) is a compelling tale of espionage and terrorism set in Edwardian London. Ironically subtitled 'A Simple Tale', it paints a terrifying portrait of revolutionaries and anarchists whose personal lives are as barren and futile as their public acts of violence. It concludes with the unwitting accomplice of a would-be terrorist blowing himself to bits with his own bomb, the terrorist's subsequent murder by his own wife, and the wife's own suicide. This new edition is based on a painstaking comparison of the original manuscript of the work with its first, truncated appearance in the American magazine Ridgeway's: A Militant Weekly for God and Country, and with all subsequent book-form publications overseen by Conrad himself. The result is a new text, purged of the printers' errors and editorial interventions that have been reproduced in all previous printings. There is also a critical introduction, an essay on the text, a textual apparatus, and helpful explanatory notes.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
File size
41,92 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-107-29890-3 (9781107298903)
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05/1990
Cambridge University Press
€132.50
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