Joseph Conrad

The Secret Agent (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition) (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Secret Agent is widely considered one of Conrad's greatest literary achievements. Set in gloomy 1886 London, the novel follows the life of Alfred Verdoc, a Soho shop owner and secret agent who is a member of a largely ineffectual anarchist cell. During a meeting at an unnamed foreign embassy where he is a covert employee, Verdoc is tasked with bombing the Greenwich Observatory-ostensibly to create public outrage and goad a lax British government into to acting more forcibly against émigré socialist and anarchist activists. The evil plan goes awry with far-reaching and devastating consequences.

This Warbler Classics edition includes an essay on Joseph Conrad by J. B. Priestly and a detailed biographical timeline.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Warbler Classics
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781957240237
• Artikelnr.: 63654000

Autorenporträt

Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) was a Polish-born British writer who ranks amongst the greatest of all English novelists and stylists.

Foto: George Charles Beresford