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The Secret Agent, A Simple Tale. NOVEL By. Joseph Conrad. ( INCLUDE: Heart of Darkness. NOVEL AND Under Western Eyes. NOVEL )

The Secret Agent, A Simple Tale. NOVEL By. Joseph Conrad. ( INCLUDE: Heart of Darkness. NOVEL AND Under Western Eyes. NOVEL )

Conrad, Joseph

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ISBN10: 1540532828
ISBN13: 9781540532824
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Nov 21 2016
Pages: 390
Weight: 1.70
Height: 0.80 Width: 8.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
The Secret Agent The story is set in London in 1886 and deals with Mr. Adolf Verloc and his work as a spy for an unnamed country (presumably Russia). The Secret Agent is one of Conrad's later political novels in which he moved away from his former tales of seafaring. The novel deals broadly with anarchism, espionage and terrorism Heart of Darkness This highly symbolic story is actually a story within a story, or frame tale, following a man named Charlie Marlow as he recounts his adventure to a group of men on a ship at dusk and continuing into the evening. It details an incident earlier in Marlow's life, a journey on what readers can assume is the Congo River (although the name of the country Marlow is visiting is never specified in the text) to investigate the work of Kurtz, a Belgian ivory trader in the Congo Free State. Under Western Eyes (1911) is a novel by Joseph Conrad. The novel takes place in St. Petersburg, Russia, and Geneva, Switzerland, and is viewed as Conrad's response to the themes explored in Crime and Punishment; Conrad was reputed to have detested Dostoevsky. It is also, some say, Conrad's response to his own early life; his father was a famous

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