The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (Oxford World's Classics)
by Joseph Conrad
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Author: Joseph ConradEditor: John Lyon
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-08-01
ISBN: 019953635X
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Book Review: Interesting
Summary: 4 Stars
At first I thought this was a serious book about Anarchist revolutionaries, and Verloc's duties as a secret agent. Then it all goes wrong and you realize that the whole book, about 200 pages of reading was all kind of a big joke on Mr.Verloc, and anarchists in general. Its worth a read.
Summary of The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (Oxford World's Classics)
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.
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