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The Secret Agent

Name: The Secret Agent
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Author: Joseph Conrad
ISBN: 9781443447652

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Joseph Conrad

HarperPerennial Classics
Paru le : 05/05/2015

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In a rough-and-ready shop in Soho in Victorian London, Mr. Verloc lives a humble existence sustaining himself, his wife, her infirm mother, and her disabled brother, Stevie. But all is not as it seems with Mr. Verloc, a secret agent in the employ of a foreign government. When a plot to bomb Greenwich Observatory falls apart, Verloc's identity is exposed, and those closest to him must bear the burden of his failures.
Harkening back to the writings of Charles Dickens, Joseph Conrad's early masterpiece effectively explores themes of subversion, politics, and crime. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

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Date de parution : 05/05/2015
Editeur : HarperPerennial Classics
ISBN : 978-1-4434-4765-2
EAN : 9781443447652
Format : ePub
Nb. de pages : 208 pages

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Biographie de Joseph Conrad

Polish author Joseph Conrad is considered to be one of the greatest English-language novelists, a remarkable achievement considering English was not his first language. Conrad's literary works often featured a nautical setting, reflecting the influences of his early career in the Merchant Navy, and his depictions of the struggles of the human spirit in a cold, indifferent world are best exemplified in such seminal works as Heart of Darkness, Lord JimM, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, and Typhoon.
Regarded as a forerunner of modernist literature, Conrad's writing style and characters have influenced such distinguished writers as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, William S. Burroughs, Hunter S. Thompson, and George Orwell, among many others. Many of Conrad's novels have been adapted for film, most notably Heart of Darkness, which served as the inspiration and foundation for Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 film Apocalypse Now.