The Secret Agent : A Simple Tale Paperback / softback

by Joseph Conrad

Edited by John (, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Bristol) Lyon

Part of the Oxford World's Classics series

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'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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In Stock - More than 10 copies availableFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:304 pages
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Publication Date:12/06/2008
Category:
- Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
ISBN:9780199536351

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