The secret agent : a simple tale / Joseph Conrad ; introduction and notes by Hugh Epstein
By: Conrad, Joseph [autor]
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Contributor(s): Epstein, Hugh [Escritor de introducción].
Series: London : Wordsworth classics, 2000Edition: First edition.Description: xxiii, 224 pages ; 20 cm.Content type: texto Media type: no mediado Carrier type: volumenISBN: 9781853260650.Subject(s): English novel | English police novel | Novela inglesa | Novela policiaca inglesaDDC classification: 823.8 / Summary: 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.
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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.
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