The Secret Agent
A Simple Tale
$38.29
- Hardcover
328 pages
- Release Date
15 November 1992
Summary
This is the only novel that Conrad set in London, and it communicates a profoundly ironic view of human affairs. The story is woven around an attack on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894. Verloc, (a Russian spy who is also working for the police) is ostensibly a member of an anarchist group in Soho.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781857151237 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1857151232 |
| Author: | Joseph Conrad |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Imprint: | Everyman's Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 328 |
| Release Date: | 15 November 1992 |
| Weight: | 469g |
| Dimensions: | 211mm x 132mm x 25mm |
| Series: | Everyman's Library CLASSICS |
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About The Author
Joseph Conrad
Józef Teodor Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowski was born in the Ukraine on 3 December 1857. His parents were Polish and had both died in exile by the time Conrad was eleven. His uncle then became his guardian and looked after him in Krakow until he was sixteen when he went to sea and sailed on French and British ships. He was made British citizen in 1886 and changed his name to Joseph Conrad. In 1889 Conrad visited the Congo and his experiences there inspired Heart of Darkness. In 1894 he published his first novel, Almayer’s Folly and went on to write nineteen more as well as many short stories, essays and a memoir. In 1896 he married Jessie George and they later had two sons. Conrad died on 3 August 1924.
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