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_aConrad, Joseph, _d1857-1924. _eauthor. |
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_aThe secret agent : _ba simple tale / _cJoseph Conrad ; introduction and notes by Hugh Epstein. |
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_aOxford [England] ; _bWordsworth Editions Limited, _cc2000. |
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_axxiii, 220 pages ; _c19.6 cm. |
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_2rdacontent _atext |
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_2rdamedia _aunmediated |
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_2rdacarrier _avolume |
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| 490 | 1 | _aOxford world's classics | |
| 504 | _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [xxiii]-xxiv). | ||
| 505 | _aContents: Introduction -- Author's note -- The secret agent -- Notes. | ||
| 520 | _a"With an Introduction and Notes by Hugh Epstein, Secretary of the Joseph Conrad Society of Great Britain. '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." -- Provided by the publisher | ||
| 521 | _aAdult | ||
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_xLauron, Rodello _yGeneral Education _zLiterature |
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_xLauron, Rodello _yGeneral Education _zLiterature |
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| 546 | _aText in English | ||
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_aConspiracies _vFiction. |
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_aAnarchists _vFiction. |
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_aBombings _vFiction. |
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_aLondon (England) _vFiction. |
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_aPolitical fiction. _2lcsh |
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_aTennant, Charles Roger, _d1919-2003. |
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| 830 | 0 | _aOxford world's classics (Oxford University Press) | |
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