The Secret Agent

Name: The Secret Agent
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Joseph Conrad
ISBN: 0000007420269

Joseph Conrad

01/01/2011
William Collins

NC (0 avis)

Couverture de The Secret Agent par Joseph Conrad

Résumé

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘They swarmed numerous like locusts, industrious like ants, thoughtless like a natural force, pushing on blind and orderly and absorbed, impervious to sentiment, to logic – to terror, too, perhaps.’ Considered one of Conrad’s most political works, The Secret Agent is set against the dismal backdrop of a drab and alienating London, and tells the story of the bombing of Greenwich Observatory by a group of anarchists. Shopkeeper, spy and reluctant anarchist Mr Verloc becomes embroiled in this terrorist plot, exploiting his mentally disabled brother-in-law Stevie in the process, leading to tragic circumstances.