The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale

Conrad, Joseph

ISBN 10: 0140620567 / ISBN 13: 9780140620566

Editore: Penguin Classics, 2010

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• Titolo: The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale
• Editore: Penguin Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0140620567
• ISBN 13: 9780140620566
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Condizione: Good
• Peso: 140,6 grammi

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Riassunto

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.

Informazioni sull?autore

Joseph Conrad was born in the Ukraine in 1857 and grew up under Tsarist autocracy. In 1874 Conrad travelled to Marseilles, where he served in French merchant vessels before joining a British ship in 1878 as an apprentice. In 1886 he obtained British nationality. Eight years later he left the sea to devote himself to writing, publishing his first novel, Almayer's Folly, in 1895. The following year he settled in Kent, where he produced within fifteen years such modern classics as Youth, Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, Typhoon, Nostromo, The Secret Agent and Under Western Eyes. He continued to write until his death in 1924.