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An impenetrable mystery seems destined to hang for ever over this act of madness or despair. 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. 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.
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The Secret Agent, Joseph Conrad
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- Année de publication
- 2005
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- Titre
- The Secret Agent
- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Joseph Conrad
- Éditeur
- The Nelson Classics
- Publié
- 2005
- Format
- rigide
- Pages
- 336
- ISBN10
- 1904919472
- ISBN13
- 9781904919476
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Fiction, Polars & Thrillers, Thèmes psychologiques, Polars, Roman social, Série Policier, Problèmes sociaux
- Première publication
- 1907
- Titre original
- The Secret Agent
- Évaluation
- 3,55 sur 5
- Description
- An impenetrable mystery seems destined to hang for ever over this act of madness or despair. 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. 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.