Der Geheimagent: eine einfache Geschichte e. einfache Geschichte

Joseph: Conrad und Georg Eisler:

ISBN 10: 3763233687 / ISBN 13: 9783763233687

Published by Büchergilde Gutenberg, 1987

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314 S. B320-83 9783763233687 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 714.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Der Geheimagent: eine einfache Geschichte e. einfache Geschichte
• Publisher: Büchergilde Gutenberg
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: German
• ISBN 10: 3763233687
• ISBN 13: 9783763233687
• Binding: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Condition: Gut
• Weight: 714 grams
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

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 butchery. It also discusses contemporary anarchist activity in the UK, imperialism, and Conrad's narrative techniques.