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JOSEPH CONRAD THESECRETAGENT
EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION ANDNOTES BY MARTIN SEYMOUR-SMITH
From the seed of an actual attempt, made in 1894, to blow up the Greenwich Observatory, Conrad created one of his most tense and chilling plots.
The world of The Secret Agent - the world of law and order, fatuous civil servants and corrupt policemen -is grotesquely mirrored in its underworld, a squalid. terrorist landscape inhabited by, among others, the Professor, who always carries a bomb in his pocket, and Verloc the pornographer, deceiver and spy. Repulsive charactersand amoral caricaturescollaboratetoform a black satire on English society, a satire sharpened intofocus with aportrait of'family life': WinnieVerloc's story relentlessly told to its 'anarchic end of utter desolation, madness and despair'.
The bones of t his tale, Conrad agreed, makeupa'grisly skeleton', yet The Secret Agent is certainly his most humorous and probably his most popular book,...
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Fülszöveg
The Penguin IH English Library
JOSEPH CONRAD THESECRETAGENT
EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION ANDNOTES BY MARTIN SEYMOUR-SMITH
From the seed of an actual attempt, made in 1894, to blow up the Greenwich Observatory, Conrad created one of his most tense and chilling plots.
The world of The Secret Agent - the world of law and order, fatuous civil servants and corrupt policemen -is grotesquely mirrored in its underworld, a squalid. terrorist landscape inhabited by, among others, the Professor, who always carries a bomb in his pocket, and Verloc the pornographer, deceiver and spy. Repulsive charactersand amoral caricaturescollaboratetoform a black satire on English society, a satire sharpened intofocus with aportrait of'family life': WinnieVerloc's story relentlessly told to its 'anarchic end of utter desolation, madness and despair'.
The bones of t his tale, Conrad agreed, makeupa'grisly skeleton', yet The Secret Agent is certainly his most humorous and probably his most popular book, and, according to F. R. Leavis, 'one of the unquestionable classics of the first order that he added to the English növel'.
Thecovershowsadetail from 'Hampstead Hill'(1883), byJohn Atkinson Grimshaw, in the Ferrers Gallery
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