conrad joseph the secret agent a simple tale
Conrad,Joseph The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale
The shop owner Adolf Verloc, member of an anarchist group and secret agent for a foreign government, is summoned to meet Mr Vladimir, the country’s ambassador, who asks him to carry out a terrorist attack at a famous London landmark. Verloc has misgivings, but Mr Vladimir knows how to make people do what he wants, and when the plan goes wrong, it is Verloc - as well as his young wife, Winnie - who must deal with the consequences. A story of espionage, intrigue and corruption based on a real-life attempted terrorist attack in Victorian London, The Secret Agent was one of literature’s first political thrillers, and is widely considered to be among Conrad’s most compelling works.
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Conrad,Joseph The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale
The shop owner Adolf Verloc, member of an anarchist group and secret agent for a foreign government, is summoned to meet Mr Vladimir, the country’s ambassador, who asks him to carry out a terrorist attack at a famous London landmark. Verloc has misgivings, but Mr Vladimir knows how to make people do what he wants, and when the plan goes wrong, it is Verloc - as well as his young wife, Winnie - who must deal with the consequences. A story of espionage, intrigue and corruption based on a real-life attempted terrorist attack in Victorian London, The Secret Agent was one of literature’s first political thrillers, and is widely considered to be among Conrad’s most compelling works.
829 Руб.
Conrad Joseph The Secret Agent. Volume 10
Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. The main character of The Secret Agent, Mr Verloc 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.
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The Secret Agent. Volume 10
Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. The main character of The Secret Agent, Mr Verloc 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.
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Conrad Joseph The Secret Agent
The Secret Agent is Joseph Conrad's dark satire on English society, edited with an introduction and notes by Michael Newton in Penguin Classics. In the only novel Conrad set in London, The Secret Agent communicates a profoundly ironic view of human affairs. The story is woven around an attack on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894 masterminded by Verloc, a Russian spy working for the police, and ostensibly a member of an anarchist group in Soho. His masters instruct him to discredit the anarchists in a humiliating fashion, and when his evil plan goes horribly awry, Verloc must deal with the repercussions of his actions. While rooted in the Edwardian period, Conrad's tale remains strikingly contemporary, with its depiction of Londoners gripped by fear of the terrorists living in their midst. This edition of The Secret Agent contains a chronology, further reading, notes and maps of London and Greenwich. In his introduction, Michael Newton discusses London's real-life world of political anarchy, and Conrad's portrayal of the Verlocs' marriage. Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) was born in the Ukraine and grew up under Tsarist autocracy. After spending years in the French, and later the British Merchant Navy, Conrad left the sea to devote himself to writing. In 1896 he settled in Kent, where he produced within fifteen years such modern classics as Youth, Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, Typhoon, Nostromo, The Secret Agent and Under Western Eyes.
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Conrad Joseph The Secret Agent
The Penguin English Library Edition of The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad 'Madness and despair! Give me that for a lever, and I'll move the world' In the only novel Conrad set in London, The Secret Agent communicates a profoundly ironic view of human affairs. The story is woven around an attack on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894 masterminded by Verloc, a Russian spy working for the police, and ostensibly a member of an anarchist group in Soho. His masters instruct him to discredit the anarchists in a humiliating fashion, and when his evil plan goes horribly awry, Verlac must deal with the repercussions of his actions. The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction written in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels, to the beginning of the First World War.
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The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale
The shop owner Adolf Verloc, member of an anarchist group and secret agent for a foreign government, is summoned to meet Mr Vladimir, the country’s ambassador, who asks him to carry out a terrorist attack at a famous London landmark. Verloc has misgivings, but Mr Vladimir knows how to make people do what he wants, and when the plan goes wrong, it is Verloc - as well as his young wife, Winnie - who must deal with the consequences.A story of espionage, intrigue and corruption based on a real-life attempted terrorist attack in Victorian London, The Secret Agent was one of literature’s first political thrillers, and is widely considered to be among Conrad’s most compelling works.
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Conrad Joseph The Secret Agent
'Then the vision of an enormous town presented itself, of a monstrous town...a cruel devourer of the world's light. There was room enough there to place any story, depth enough for any passion, variety enough there for any setting, darkness enough to bury five millions of lives.' Conrad's 'monstrous town' is London, and his story of espionage and counter-espionage, anarchists and embassies, is a detective story that becomes the story of Winnie Verloc's tenacity in maintaining her devotion to her peculiar and simple-minded brother, Stevie, as they pursue their very ordinary lives above a rather dubious shop in the back streets of Soho. However, far from offering any sentimental picture, The Secret Agent is Conrad's funniest novel. Its savagely witty picture of human absurdity and misunderstanding is written in an ironic style that provokes laughter and unease at the same time, and that continues to provide one of the most disturbing visions of aspiration and futility in twentieth century literature. With an Introduction and Notes by Hugh Epstein, Secretary of the Joseph Conrad Society of Great Britain.
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Conrad Joseph The Secret Agent
The main character of this story, 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.
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Conrad Joseph The Secret Agent
Behind the facade of a Soho shop selling dubious merchandise lives Verloc with his wife Winnie, her mother and her retarded brother, Stevie. Verloc is an overweight, indolent anarchist who conceals his political activities, such as they are, under a veneer of domesticity and family life. According to the First Secretary, Mr Vladimir, Verloc has done little to earn his money in recent years and it is time for a 'dynamic outrage' to provoke the middle classes. So Verloc, accepting his duty, plants a bpmb at the Greenwich Observatory. But when the blast has done its work, Verloc finds he has destroyed a great deal more than the complacency of the bourgeoisie. Издание полностью на английском языке. Полный, неадаптированный текст произведения.
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Conrad Joseph The Secret Agent
Read the world's first political thriller. London is under threat. It has become a haven for political exiles and anarchists. Frequent bomb threats and disturbances interrupt the lives of the city's inhabitants, who live in fear of the terrorists in their midst. One such terrorist is Verloc. He is the secret agent who is given the mission to strike right at the heart of London's pride by blowing up Greenwich Observatory. But his decision to drag his innocent family into the plot leads to tragic consequences on a more personal than political level.
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Conrad Joseph The Secret Agent
The Secret Agent is the unsurpassed original of a long series of twentieth-century novels and films which explore the confused motives that lie at the heart of political terrorism. In its use of powerful psychological insight to intensify narrative suspense, it sets the terms by which subsequent works in its genre were created. Conrad was the first novelist to discover the strange, in-between territory of the political exile, and his genius was such that we still have no truer map of that region’s moral terrain than his story of a terrorist plot and its tragic consequences for both guilty and innocent alike.
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Conrad Joseph The Secret Agent
Published in 1907, Conrad's compelling tale of anarchy, espionage and violence is set in the seedy back streets of Victorian London where Adolf Verloc, a shopkeeper who is also a secret agent, is assigned the task of blowing up the Greenwich Observatory.
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Conrad Joseph The Secret Agent
The shop owner Adolf Verloc, member of an anarchist group and secret agent for a foreign government, is summoned to meet Mr Vladimir, the country’s ambassador, who asks him to carry out a terrorist attack at a famous London landmark. Verloc has misgivings, but Mr Vladimir knows how to make people do what he wants, and when the plan goes wrong, it is Verloc – as well as his young wife, Winnie – who must deal with the consequences. A story of espionage, intrigue and corruption based on a real-life attempted terrorist attack in Victorian London, The Secret Agent was one of literature’s first political thrillers, and is widely considered to be among Conrad’s most compelling works.
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Конрад Джозеф The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale
Джозеф Конрад (Юзеф Теодор Конрад Коженёвский; 1857–1924) - английский писатель польского происхождения, чьи авантюрно-психологические романы подготовили явление европейского модернизма. В романе "Тайный агент: Простая история" (1907) Конрад затрагивает русскую тему, во многом следуя в ее трактовке Ф. М. Достоевскому. Завербованный посольством одной восточной державы (подразумевается Российская империя) человек лондонского "подполья" соглашается организовать взрыв Королевской обсерватории в Гринвиче - изобразить покушение на сами основы западной цивилизации и науки ради международной борьбы с террором. Автор подробно описывает, как полиция идет по следу преступника, создает выразительные портреты анархистов, раскрывает семейную трагедию заглавного персонажа. Пронизанное иронией и черным юмором, повествование в то же время таит в себе нечто глубинно-лирическое и даже архетипическое: за яркой канвой событий проступают трагедия одиночки, терзаемого душевными страданиями, фатальная игра человека с судьбой, роковая утрата невинности духа, шаткость и двойственность бытия. Издание на английском языке.
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Конрад Дж. The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale
Джозеф Конрад (Юзеф Теодор Конрад Коженёвский; 1857–1924) - английский писатель польского происхождения, чьи авантюрно-психологические романы подготовили явление европейского модернизма. В романе "Тайный агент: Простая история" (1907) Конрад затрагивает русскую тему, во многом следуя в ее трактовке Ф. М. Достоевскому. Завербованный посольством одной восточной державы (подразумевается Российская империя) человек лондонского "подполья" соглашается организовать взрыв Королевской обсерватории в Гринвиче - изобразить покушение на сами основы западной цивилизации и науки ради международной борьбы с террором. Автор подробно описывает, как полиция идет по следу преступника, создает выразительные портреты анархистов, раскрывает семейную трагедию заглавного персонажа. Пронизанное иронией и черным юмором, повествование в то же время таит в себе нечто глубинно-лирическое и даже архетипическое: за яркой канвой событий проступают трагедия одиночки, терзаемого душевными страданиями, фатальная игра человека с судьбой, роковая утрата невинности духа, шаткость и двойственность бытия. Издание на английском языке.
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