The Secret Agent : A Simple Tale

Name: The Secret Agent
Brand: Oxford University Press
SKU: 9780199536351
Price: 1600 KES
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ISBN: 9780199536351

by Conrad

Book Details

Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Oxford World's Classics

ISBN-10 019953635X

ISBN-13 9780199536351

Publisher Oxford University Press

Imprint Oxford University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jun 12th, 2008

Print length 304 Pages

Weight 212 grams

Dimensions 19.50 x 12.80 x 1.50 cms

Product Classification: English 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999 Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general

KSh 1,600.00

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Mr Verloc, the secret agent, is involved in an anarchist plot to blow up the Greenwich Observatory which goes disastrously wrong. Based on the text which Conrad's first English readers enjoyed, 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.

''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.Based on the text which Conrad''s first English readers enjoyed, 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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