Joseph Conrad: The Secret Agent
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- Kategoria: kaunokirjallisuus, alakategoria: kaunokirjalliset sekasisältöiset teokset
- Materiaali: Nidottu
- Kustantaja: Penguin Books
- Kieli: englanti
- ISBN: 9780141199559
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'Madness and despair! Give me that for a lever, and I'll move the world'. 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. The Penguin English Library — 100 editions of the best fiction written in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels, to the beginning of the First World War.