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The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale

The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale

Conrad, Joseph
Lyon, John

Paperback

Series: Oxford World's Classics

Mystery & ThrillerClassic Fiction

Publisher Price: $10.95

ISBN10: 019953635X
ISBN13: 9780199536351
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Aug 1 2008
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.70 Width: 7.60 Depth: 5.00
Language: English
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 full and up-to-date bibliography, a comprehensive chronology and 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. It also discusses contemporary anarchist activity in the UK, imperialism, and Conrad's narrative techniques.

About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum 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, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

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