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The Secret Agent
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Description
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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
2
Number of Pages:
245
Release Date:
2008-08-01
Publication Date:
2008-08-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
019953635X
ISBN13:
9780199536351
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
Weight:
210 g
Height:
128 cm
Width:
199 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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Very good
Almost no signs of wear. Book pages have no markings, accessories are intact and all other media are in good condition.
€7,49