'An impenetrable mystery seems destined to hang for ever over this act
of madness or despair.' 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 critical introduction which describes Conrad's
great London novel as the realization of a 'monstrous town', a place
of idiocy, madness, criminality, and butchery. ABOUT THE SERIES: For
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ISBN
9780191501050
Publisert
2017
Utgiver
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OUP Oxford
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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