The Secret Agent (Broadview Editions) - Softcover

Conrad, Joseph

 
9781551117843: The Secret Agent (Broadview Editions)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1551117843 ISBN 13: 9781551117843
Verlag: Broadview Press Ltd, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

The Secret Agent is set in the seedy world of Adolf Verloc, a storekeeper and double agent in late-Victorian London who pretends to sympathize with a group of international anarchists but reports on their activities to both the Russian embassy and the British government. As he is drawn further into a terrorist bombing plot, his family also becomes involved, with devastating consequences. Based on a real-life failed anarchist plot, The Secret Agent is both intimately engaged with its historical moment and profoundly relevant today.

This new Broadview Edition helps to recreate the historical context that informed Conrad’s preoccupations with global terrorism, human degeneration, the relativity of time, and the position of women.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Tanya Agathocleous is Assistant Professor of English at Hunter College, City University of New York.

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The Secret Agent is set in the seedy world of Adolf Verloc, a storekeeper and double agent in late-Victorian London who pretends to sympathize with a group of international anarchists but reports on their activities to both the Russian embassy and the British government. As he is drawn further into a terrorist bombing plot, his family also becomes involved, with devastating consequences. Based on a real-life failed anarchist plot, The Secret Agent is both intimately engaged with its historical moment and profoundly relevant today.

This new Broadview Edition helps to recreate the historical context that informed Conrad's preoccupations with global terrorism, human degeneration, the relativity of time, and the position of women.

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Verlag
Broadview Press Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2009
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1551117843
ISBN 13 
9781551117843
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
320
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