London is under threat. Frequent bomb threats and disturbances interrupt the lives of the ... more
city's inhabitants, who live in fear of the terrorists in their midst. One such terrorist is Verloc. He is the secret agent who is given the mission to strike right at the heart of London's pride by blowing up Greenwich Observatory.
An attack on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894 is masterminded by Verloc, a Russian spy ... more
working for the police, and 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.
Mr Verloc, the secret agent, is involved in an anarchist plot to blow up the Greenwich ... more
Observatory which goes disastrously wrong. 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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Advantages: A story that tells you a lot about yourself if you'll only let it Disadvantages: A bit difficult to read at times
I had to read JosephConrad's Heart of Darkness for my University degree and will admit that I personally found it quite tough going, despite the book being ever so short in length, 111 pages in fact. After writing a 2000 word essay on a particular aspect of the book however I found myself being drawn into the story and have know come to if not like at least respect the book.
When Marlow was a young child he would spend hours staring at the blanks spaces on maps and when he found one that particularly interested him would exclaim 'When I grow up I want to go there'. Now older he still has a passion for adventure and despite the fact that those once empty spaces are now coloured in by the colours of the empires that own them he still wants to travel there.
Becoming a seaman and head of a steamboat Marlow leads an expedition down ...
Advantages: Beautifully written, descriptive brilliance, insight, characterisation Disadvantages: Style and structure may be difficult
There are many ‘classic’ novels that are very over-rated, but this is not one of them. This is a fascinating exploration of greed and obsession set in a fictional South American republic plagued by constant revolutions. 'Nostromo' explores the corrupting influence of the pursuit of material interests and is prescient in its depiction of the U.S.A.'s involvement in the politics of the region. Meticulous in its detail and insightful in its exploration of human motivations and moral weakness, the action flows quickly (for a Conrad novel!) and the many shifts in time and location steadily draw the reader into the bloody history of Costaguana and its long-suffering people. The characterisations are excellent (although the author struggles a little as usual with his female characters)as are the evocative descriptions ...
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EAN
9780192801692
Type
Fiction
Genre
Modern Fiction
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Title
The Secret Agent
Author
Joseph Conrad
ISBN
0192801694
Manufacturer's product description
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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