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The Secret Agent
Joseph Conrad
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Description for The Secret Agent
Hardcover. This is the only novel that Conrad set in London, and it communicates a profoundly ironic view of human affairs. The story is woven around an attack on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894. Verloc, (a Russian spy who is also working for the police) is ostensibly a member of an anarchist group in Soho. Num Pages: 284 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 131 x 24. Weight in Grams: 474.
This is the only novel that Conrad set in London, and it communicates a profoundly ironic view of human affairs. The story is woven around an attack on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894. Verloc, (a Russian spy who is also working for the police) is ostensibly a member of an anarchist group in Soho.
This is the only novel that Conrad set in London, and it communicates a profoundly ironic view of human affairs. The story is woven around an attack on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894. Verloc, (a Russian spy who is also working for the police) is ostensibly a member of an anarchist group in Soho.
Product Details
Publisher
Everyman United Kingdom
Number of pages
284
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781857151237
SKU
V9781857151237
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About Joseph Conrad
Józef Teodor Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowski was born in the Ukraine on 3 December 1857. His parents were Polish and had both died in exile by the time Conrad was eleven. His uncle then became his guardian and looked after him in Krakow until he was sixteen when he went to sea and sailed on French and British ships. He was ... Read more
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