The secret agent : a simple tale
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Location | Call Number | Status | Due Date |
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Adult Fiction - South Wing Basement | Conrad | Checked Out | May 2, 2024 |
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Book
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317 pages
Language
English
Accelerated Reader
UG
Level 9.4, 17 Points
Level 9.4, 17 Points
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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 full and up-to-date bibliography, a comprehensive chronology and a critical introduction which describes Conrad's great London novel as the realization of a "monstrous town," a place of idiocy, madness, criminality, and savage butchery. It also discusses contemporary anarchist activity in the UK, imperialism, and Conrad's narrative techniques.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Conrad, J., & Tennant, C. R. (1998). The secret agent: a simple tale ([Oxford edition] /). Oxford University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 and Charles Roger Tennant. 1998. The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale. Oxford University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 and Charles Roger Tennant. The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale Oxford University Press, 1998.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Conrad, Joseph, and Charles Roger Tennant. The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale [Oxford edition] /, Oxford University Press, 1998.
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