The Secret Agent : A Simple Tale PDF
by Joseph Conrad
Edited by Bruce (Kent State University, Ohio) Harkness, S. W. (Kent State University, Ohio) Reid
Part of the The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad series
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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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- Pages:469 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:25/05/1990
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- ISBN:9781107298903
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- Format:PDF
- Pages:469 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:25/05/1990
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- ISBN:9781107298903