The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale

The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale - Paperback

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The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale - Paperback

The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale - Paperback

by Joseph Conrad
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Book Overview

by Joseph Conrad (Author), John Lyon (Editor)

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.

About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Author Biography

John Lyon has previously edited Conrad's Youth/Heart of Darkness/The End of the Tether for Penguin Twentieth Century Classics, and novels by Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, and D. H. Lawrence.

Number of Pages: 304
Dimensions: 0.7 x 5 x 7.6 IN
Publication Date: August 01, 2008
Accelerated Reader:
Quiz Name: Secret Agent
Interest Level: Upper Grades, 9-12
Reading Level: 9.4
Point Value: 17
ISBN9780199536351
Author Joseph Conrad
PublisherOxford University Press
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedAugust 2008
LanguageENG- English
Pages304
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceTeens & young adults
Print SizeStandard Print

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