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Secret Agent Wordsworth Classics

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作者：Joseph Conrad 著

出版社：Wordsworth Editions Ltd

出版时间：1997-09-01

I S B N：9781853260650

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(in full The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale) Novel by Joseph Conrad, first published serially in the New York weekly Ridgeway's in 1906-07 and in book form in 1907. This absurdist story is noted for its adept characterizations, melodramatic irony, and psychological intrigue. Adolf Verloc is a languid eastern European secret agent posing as a London shop owner with anarchist leanings who is ordered to dynamite Greenwich Observatory. The plot fails when Verloc's mentally retarded brother-in-law is accidently killed by the explosives. Verloc's wife Winnie murders Verloc in a fit of rage. She commits suicide after she is betrayed by Ossipon, one of her husband's anarchist associates. -- The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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With an Introduction and Notes by Hugh Epstein, Secretary of the Joseph Conrad Society of Great Britain Then the vision of an enormous town prented 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.