Joseph Conrad The Secret Agent (Paperback) Wordsworth Classics

Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Secret AgentCondition: NewEAN: 9781853260650ISBN: 9781853260650Publisher: Wordsworth Editions LtdFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 08/05/1993Item Height: 198mmItem Length: 129mmItem Width: 13mmItem Weight: 163gAuthor: Joseph ConradContributor: Hugh Epstein (Introduction and notes by), Dr Keith Carabine (Series edited by)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 1853260657Description: With an Introduction and Notes by Hugh Epstein, Secretary of the Joseph Conrad Society of Great Britain. 'Then the vision of an enormous town presented itself, of a monstrous town...a cruel devourer of the world's light. There was room enough there to place any story, depth enough for any passion, variety enough there for any setting, darkness enough to bury five millions of lives.' Conrad’s ‘monstrous town’ is London, and his story of espionage and counter-espionage, anarchists and embassies, is a detective story that becomes the story of Winnie Verloc’s tenacity in maintaining her devotion to her peculiar and simple-minded brother, Stevie, as they pursue their very ordinary lives above a rather dubious shop in the back streets of Soho. However, far from offering any sentimental picture, The Secret Agent is Conrad’s funniest novel. Its savagely witty picture of human absurdity and misunderstanding is written in an ironic style that provokes laughter and unease at the same time, and that continues to provide one of the most disturbing visions of aspiration and futility in twentieth century literature.Country/Region of Manufacture: GBGenre: FictionBook Series: Wordsworth ClassicsTopic: Classic FictionRelease Year: 1993 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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