The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (Everyman's Library CLASSICS) - Hardcover

Conrad, Joseph

 
9781857151237: The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (Everyman's Library CLASSICS)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1857151232 ISBN 13: 9781857151237
Verlag: Everyman, 1992

Inhaltsangabe

This is the only novel that Conrad set in London, and it communicates a profoundly ironic view of human affairs. The story is woven around an attack on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894. Verloc, (a Russian spy who is also working for the police) is ostensibly a member of an anarchist group in Soho.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Józef Teodor Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowski was born in the Ukraine on 3 December 1857. His parents were Polish and had both died in exile by the time Conrad was eleven. His uncle then became his guardian and looked after him in Krakow until he was sixteen when he went to sea and sailed on French and British ships. He was made British citizen in 1886 and changed his name to Joseph Conrad. In 1889 Conrad visited the Congo and his experiences there inspired Heart of Darkness. In 1894 he published his first novel, Almayer's Folly and went on to write nineteen more as well as many short stories, essays and a memoir. In 1896 he married Jessie George and they later had two sons. Conrad died on 3 August 1924.

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This is the only novel that Conrad set in London, and it communicates a profoundly ironic view of human affairs. The story is woven around an attack on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894. Verloc, (a Russian spy who is also working for the police) is ostensibly a member of an anarchist group in Soho.

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Verlag
Everyman
Erscheinungsdatum
1992
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1857151232
ISBN 13 
9781857151237
Einband
Tapa dura
Anzahl der Seiten
328
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