The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (Oxford World's Classics)

The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (Oxford World's Classics)

by Joseph Conrad (Author), John Lyon (Editor)

Synopsis

'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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Format: Paperback
Pages: 304
Edition: New
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 11 Mar 2004

ISBN 10: 0192801694
ISBN 13: 9780192801692

Author Bio

John Lyon has previously edited Conrad's Youth/Heart of Darkness/The End of the Tether for Penguin Twentieth Century Classics, and novels by Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, and D. H. Lawrence.