Name: The Secret Agent A Simple Tale [EasyRead Large Edition]
Rating: 3.46875 (32 reviews)
ISBN: 9781425051730

Joseph Conrad

The Secret Agent A Simple Tale [EasyRead Large Edition]

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 full and up-to-date bibliography, a comprehensive chronology and 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. It also discusses contemporary anarchist activity in the UK, imperialism, and Conrad's narrative techniques.

A Simple Tale

The Secret Agent

Jeni Enjaian

I really had no idea what to expect when I opened this book so I can't say that I was disappointed. At the same time, I never really got into the book. Quite frankly, I really don't understand the point of the plot which was fairly incomprehensible. I suppose that if I had slowed down and taken more time with this book than I was willing to, then the overly complicated plot would have made more sense. I finished the book with the thought "what on earth just happened?" This is another so-called classic that I finish wondering what made the book such a classic.

El agente secreto

Jose Vera

Me fue my difícil leer este libro, aunque las descripciones de los personajes son extraordinaras, (cada uno más patético que el otro), aunque perfile deliciosamente a pseudo revolucionarios de salon(que, supongo, siempre han existido y exisitran) hay algo en la propia historia que me demoro mucho la lectura.

La ironia y el patetismo, tanto de los personajes como de la situación que impulsa a Verloc a tomar las acciones que toma son realmente palpables, el libro de por si no me termino de cuajar completamente.

Karolina Klermon-Williams

Seth Kalback

'The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket.' Set in an Edwardian London underworld of terrorist bombers, spies, grotesques and fanatics, Conrad's dark, unsettling masterpiece asks if we ever really know others, or ourselves. A new series of twenty distinctive, unforgettable Penguin Classics in a beautiful new design and pocket-sized format, with coloured jackets echoing Penguin's original covers.

Alexander Lobov

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Sarah Escorsa

Sabine Delorme

Giovanni Garcia-Fenech 

Jane McCullough

The Secret Sharer is a popular early 20th century novel written by author Joseph Conrad. The story taking place at sea, is told from the perpsective of a young sea captain. Not knowing his crew ahead of time except for the previous night, he struggles to see if he can life up to the authorty role that is a must among captains. The Secret Sharer is a an excellent book for those who are interested in novels dealing with the sea and also those who are fans of the writings of Joseph Conrad.

The Secret Sharer

Akanksha Chattopadhyay

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. 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.

The Secret Agent A Simple Tale [EasyRead Large Edition]

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