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Conrad Joseph - The Secret Agent A Simple Tale - Paperback
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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. About THE Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up - to - date bibliographies for further study and much more.
Title: The Secret Agent A Simple Tale
Author(s): Conrad Joseph, Lyon, John (, Senior Lecturer In English, University Of Bristol)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780199536351
Pages: 304 Pages
Publication Date: 8/1/2008
Series: Oxford World's Classics
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
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. About THE Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up - to - date bibliographies for further study and much more.
Title: The Secret Agent A Simple Tale
Author(s): Conrad Joseph, Lyon, John (, Senior Lecturer In English, University Of Bristol)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780199536351
Pages: 304 Pages
Publication Date: 8/1/2008
Series: Oxford World's Classics
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
