A story of espionage and counter-espionage, and anarchists and embassies. At first, Joseph Conrad did not dare to call this book a novel.
This is the only novel that Conrad set in London, and it communicates a profoundly ironic view of human affairs. The story is woven around an attack on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894.
How is this book unique? Unabridged (100% Original content) Font adjustments & biography included Illustrated About The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale is a novel by Joseph Conrad, published in 1907.
The Secret Agent is notable for being 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.
Conrad's 1907 thriller about terrorism and the London police follows an anarchist whose desolation and despair leads to an attempt to destroy the Greenwich Observatory. Reader's Guide included. Reprint.
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The Secret Agent was written and directed by Christopher Hampton. This volume contains both screenplays based on the novels of the same name by Joseph Conrad.
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And yes, that includes the existence of God–Pascal notwithstanding.” “But is Roderick the sort of guy who'd hire a whore? Much less kill her?” Oliver shrugged. “I know quite little about the man beyond the usual paparazzi pap.
116); see also Elbridge L. Adams, Joseph Conrad: The Man (New York, 1925) p. 55. JeanAubry, Life and Letters, II 322. Sir Robert Anderson, The Lighter Side of My Official Life (London and New York, 1910) pp. 175–6. Sir Robert Anderson ...
The Secret Agent is notable for being 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.
How is this book unique? Unabridged (100% Original content) Font adjustments & biography included Illustrated About The Secret Agent By Joseph Conrad The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale is a novel by Joseph Conrad, published in 1907.
The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale is a novel by Joseph Conrad, published in 1907.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.
This edition of The Secret Agent contains a chronology, further reading, notes and maps of London and Greenwich.
Laymen, pawns in the big game, are the true victims. Conrad's own personal experiences enrich the story with an intense emotional appeal.
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.
The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale is a novel by Joseph Conrad, published in 1907. The story is set in London in 1886 and deals with Mr. Adolf Verloc and...
The main character of The Secret Agent, Mr Verloc keeps a shop in London's Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her infirm mother, and her idiot brother, Stevie.
Based on newly-discovered archives in Sweden, The Secret Agent is a riveting piece of narrative nonfiction that tells the true story of Erickson's remarkable life for the first time.