'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.
Autor |
Joseph Conrad |
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Vydavateľ |
Penguin |
Jazyk | anglický |
Väzba | mäkká |
Počet strán | 288 |
EAN | 9780141199559 |
Edícia |
Penguin English Library |