Description
Title: The Secret Agent
Author: Conrad, Joseph
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday, Doran & Company, New York
Publication Date: 1928
Edition: 1928 Reprint
Book Condition: VG
Comments: No d-j. Top edge and fore-edge are tanned. Top edge has a few small stains.
Synopsis: 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 full and up-to-date bibliography, a comprehensive chronology and 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. It also discusses contemporary anarchist activity in the UK, imperialism, and Conrad’s narrative techniques.
