The Secret Agent - Couverture souple

Conrad, Joseph

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0241259525 ISBN 13 : 9780241259528

Editeur : Penguin Classics, 2016

Synopsis

'The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket.'

Set in an Edwardian London underworld of terrorist bombers, spies, grotesques and fanatics, Conrad's dark, unsettling masterpiece asks if we ever really know others, or ourselves.

A new series of twenty distinctive, unforgettable Penguin Classics in a beautiful new design and pocket-sized format, with coloured jackets echoing Penguin's original covers.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Joseph Conrad's major works (all published by Penguin Classics) include Heart of Darkness, Nostromo, Lord Jim,Under Western Eyes, The Secret Agent and Typhoon.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

'The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket.'

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.

A new series of twenty distinctive, unforgettable Penguin Classics in a beautiful new design and pocket-sized format, with coloured jackets echoing Penguin's original covers.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Classics
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0241259525
• ISBN 13: 9780241259528
• Reliure: Poche
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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