The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Joseph Conrad, Michael Newton (Editor), Michael Newton (Introduction by)Series:Penguin ClassicsAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2007-12-01Pages:320
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin GroupISBN-13:9780141441580ISBN-10:141441585UPC:9780141441580Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, Action & Adventure, PoliticalSize:7.80 x 5.16 x 0.75 inchesWeight:0.5313Product ID:SC7SA93J42
Joseph Conrad's dark satire on English society In the only novel Conrad set in London, The Secret Agent communicates a profoundly ironic view of human affairs. The story is woven around an attack on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894 masterminded by Verloc, a Russian spy working for the police, and ostensibly a member of an anarchist group in Soho. His masters instruct him to discredit the...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin GroupISBN-13:9780141441580ISBN-10:141441585UPC:9780141441580Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, Action & Adventure, PoliticalSize:7.80 x 5.16 x 0.75 inchesWeight:0.5313Product ID:SC7SA93J42
Joseph Conrad (originally J?zef Teodor Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowski) was born in the Ukraine in 1857 and grew up under Tsarist autocracy. In 1896 he settled in Kent, where he produced within fifteen years such modern classics as Youth, Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, Typhoon, Nostromo, The Secret Agent and Under Western Eyes. He continued to write until his death in 1924. Today Conrad is generally...
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Joseph Conrad, Michael Newton (Editor), Michael Newton (Introduction by)
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