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The Secret Agent

By Joseph Conrad , Tanya Agathocleous

Book information

Publisher
Broadview Press
Year
2009
ISBN
978-1-55111-784-3, 1551117843
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1864268 bytes)
Pages
320\320
Time added
2018-02-18 10:30:00

Description

The Secret Agent is set in the seedy world of Adolf Verloc, a storekeeper and double agent in late-Victorian London who pretends to sympathize with a group of international anarchists but reports on their activities to both the Russian embassy and the British government. As he is drawn further into a terrorist bombing plot, his family also becomes involved, with devastating consequences. Based on a real-life failed anarchist plot, The Secret Agent is both intimately engaged with its historical moment and profoundly relevant today. This new Broadview Edition helps to recreate the historical context that informed Conrad’s preoccupations with global terrorism, human degeneration, the relativity of time, and the position of women.

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