Joseph Conrad
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| Original Title: | The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale |
| ISBN: | 0192801694 (ISBN13: 9780192801692) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Adolf Verloc, Winnie Verloc, Stevie, Chief Inspector Heat, Comrade Alexander Ossipon, Michaelis, Mr. Vladimir, the Assistant Commissioner, Sir Ethelred, Karl Yundt |
| Setting: | London, England,1886(United Kingdom) |
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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 savage butchery. It also discusses contemporary anarchist activity in the UK, imperialism, and Conrad's narrative techniques.
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| Title | : | The Secret Agent |
| Author | : | Joseph Conrad |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Oxford World's Classics |
| Pages | : | Pages: 304 pages |
| Published | : | April 29th 2004 by Oxford University Press (first published 1907) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Classics. Literature. Mystery |
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The Secret Agent (1907) by Joseph ConradWhat a novel. Magnificent. Incredibly convoluted, dense, sporadically boring, but also extraordinary prescient, dark, beautifully written, occasionally amusing, sometimes laugh out loud funny, but, above all, always strangely compelling. This London novel takes place during the 1880s and involves a small group of mostly ineffectual anarchists. Conrad writes compelling portraits of these disaffected participants. One of them, Adolf Verloc, is a shopkeeperIf you're into stuff like this, you can read the full review.Meister Geschichtenerzähler: "The Secret Agent" by Joseph Conrad(Original Review, 2002-06-25)One of my oldest friends, both female and a graduate in English loathes Lessing, and I could just as easily wonder how Nabokov can offer anything superior to Under Western Eyes, The Secret Agent, Nostromo or Victory, which must have one of the most memorable lines in English literature when the sinister Mr. Jones tells Heyst: "I am the world
First published in 1907, this spy fiction might be a literary adventure to those unfamiliar with Joseph Conrad's writing style enriched by apt, scholarly words and idioms admirable for his writing as his third language. From its 13 chapters, I found reading its first three fourths confusing due to its plot; however, I kept reading and gradually saw the light around Chapters 9-10 onwards. Then I enjoyed reading Chapter 11 in which I christened by noting as a tragic chapter since all episodes
I started this book during a speed dating project and decided to try to finish all those books I dated and decided to keep and finish before the end of 2015. Conrad himself had to defend this book to critics - it isn't his usual style, they didn't understand the context, etc. There is a brief intro in my edition by Conrad that attempts to justify it, but to me it was a justification it didn't need.Published in 1907, the central story of this short (but incredibly dense) novel is a bombing scheme
A first time read of the author and perhaps this might not have been the novel to start with. Found the first half of the novel confusing and convoluted although the story did gain some momentum in the second half and become engrossing. A novel of spies, espionage and terrorism in the late 1800's.One of those novels that you have an inkling early on that won't end well for the characters involved.
The inner workings of a terrorist cell are examined in this tale of ideology and betrayal. Should be required reading for military/law enforcement personnel.
In the aftermath of a tragedy people often look towards artists, towards novelists, musicians and poets also, for comfort, the kind of comfort one finds when someone is able to capture an event, or feelings, that you yourself find incomprehensible or unfathomable or inexpressible. For example, after 9/11 there was a rush to proclaim certain kinds of art as speaking for the time[s], and it was then that Joseph Conrads The Secret Agent received a lot of attention, it being a novel concerned with a
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