false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171075859m/86658.jpg 86658 114 '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. 3876535 1907 The Secret Agent (Oxford World's Classics) total:1602|5:289|4:595|3:538|2:142|1:38| 1602 5761 2485 143 0 5 false false Thu Feb 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Apr 20 18:50:31 -0700 2008 Mon Feb 09 15:52:56 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 3 false false Thu May 22 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 17 09:26:05 -0700 2008 Tue May 27 04:03:47 -0700 2008 The Secret Agent was a genuinely fascinating profile of modern (by which I mean 1905) London society, and I found Conrad's picture of society being driven by personal interest and the lust for political power to be incredibly modern (by which I mean 2008) in its deep pessimism and s...more...]]> 3 1 false false Wed Jun 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 15 04:53:58 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 02 08:30:38 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Jun 27 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 08 10:05:53 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 28 08:14:50 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Oct 07 20:58:36 -0700 2007 Tue Dec 25 05:43:26 -0800 2007
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