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The Secret Agent
de Conrad, Joseph
- Usado
- Bien
- Tapa blanda
- First
- Estado
- Bien
- ISBN 10
- 0140620567
- ISBN 13
- 9780140620566
- Librería
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Great Britain: Penguin Books, 1994. Paperback. Wear to bottom edge of cover. Complete and Unabridged. 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. 249 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.). 1st Penguin Popular Classic Edition. Softcover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Paperback.
Sinopsis
The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale is one of Joseph Conrad’s later novels. Set in London in 1886, the novel tells the story of Adolf Verloc, a member of a largely ineffectual anarchist group who is also a secret agent, and an operation with unforeseen consequences. In his Author’s Note written in 1920, Conrad explains that the plot of the novel was inspired by the Greenwich Bomb Outrage of February 1894. In this event, explosives prematurely detonated in the hands of French anarchist named Martial Bourdin on the grounds of the Greenwich Observatory. What fascinated Conrad the most about the Greenwich Bomb Outrage was the fact that the motives remained a mystery. Through themes of espionage, anarchism, and terrorism based on horrific, but true events, The Secret Agent questions the world's capacity for reason and order in a smart, yet skeptical way. Perhaps this explains why the novel is said to be one of the three most talked-about works of literature in the media immediately after 9/11. The Secret Agent did not sell well initially, but is now considered a classic. The novel is ranked 46th on Modern Library’s “100 Best” English-language novels of the 20th century. The Secret Agent has undergone multiple adaptations for both the stage and the screen. Perhaps most notable is Alfred Hitchcock's 1936 film, Sabotage, loosely based on the novel, though many changes to the plot and characters were made. (Not to be confused with another 1936 Hitchcock film, Secret Agent, based on short stories by W. Somerset Maugham.) Fun fact: The Secret Agent is said to have greatly influenced Theodore Kaczynski, better known as the Unabomber. Kaczynski, who engaged in a nationwide bombing campaign in the US between 1978 and 1995, strongly identified with the Professor, the villain of the novel.
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- Inventario del vendedor #
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- Título
- The Secret Agent
- Autor
- Conrad, Joseph
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Bien
- Edición
- 1st Penguin Popular Classic Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0140620567
- ISBN 13
- 9780140620566
- Editorial
- Penguin Books
- Lugar de publicación
- Great Britain
- Fecha de publicación
- 1994
- Palabras clave
- Fiction Classic
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
