Conrad, Joseph 1857-1924
The secret agent : a simple tale / Joseph Conrad ; introduction and notes by Hugh Epstein - First edition - xxiii, 224 pages ; 20 cm. - Wordsworth Classics 5 .
The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket.' 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 anarchists in a humiliating fashion, and when his evil plan goes horribly awry, Verlac must deal with the repercussions of his actions. This is a new series of twenty distinctive, unforgettable Penguin Classics in a beautiful new design and pocket-sized format, with coloured jackets echoing Penguin's original covers. -- Tomado sitio web.
9781853260650
English novel
English police novel
Novela inglesa
Novela policiaca inglesa
823.8 / / C65se
The secret agent : a simple tale / Joseph Conrad ; introduction and notes by Hugh Epstein - First edition - xxiii, 224 pages ; 20 cm. - Wordsworth Classics 5 .
The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket.' 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 anarchists in a humiliating fashion, and when his evil plan goes horribly awry, Verlac must deal with the repercussions of his actions. This is a new series of twenty distinctive, unforgettable Penguin Classics in a beautiful new design and pocket-sized format, with coloured jackets echoing Penguin's original covers. -- Tomado sitio web.
9781853260650
English novel
English police novel
Novela inglesa
Novela policiaca inglesa
823.8 / / C65se