The secret agent : A simple tale / created by Joseph Conrad
Material type: TextSeries: Penguin popular classicsPublisher: David Campbell Publishers 1992Copyright date: ©1992Description: 248 pages ; 20 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1857151232
- 9780140620566
- PR6005.O4 CON
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Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | Zvishavane Library Open Shelf | PR6005.O4 CON (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 49962 | Available | BK30644 |
This is the only novel that Conrad set in London, and it communicates a profoundly ironic view of human affairs. The story is woven around an attack on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894. Verloc, a Russian spy who is also working for the police, is ostensibly a member of an anarchist group in Soho
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