The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (Oxford World’s Classics) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 019953635X ISBN 13: 9780199536351

Verlag: Oxford University Press, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

'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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John Lyon has previously edited Conrad's Youth/Heart of Darkness/The End of the Tether for Penguin Twentieth Century Classics, and novels by Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, and D. H. Lawrence.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 019953635X
• ISBN 13: 9780199536351
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 245
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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