Screenplay (The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale) - Softcover

Hampton, Christopher; Conrad, Joseph

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9780571190263: Screenplay (The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale)

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ISBN 10: 057119026X ISBN 13: 9780571190263

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 1997

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The Secret Agent: It is 1886, and Verloc, an agent provocateur who is secretly working for the police and the Russian Embassy while ostensibly a member of an anarchist group in Soho, is required by his masters to betray the anarchists in some spectacular way. The plan goes horribly wrong and the repercussions are dramatically different from those intended by Verloc. Nostromo: The attempt to rescue the silver of the San Tome mine from the hands of yet another revolutionary dictator tests the characters of the Goulds, inheritors of the Latin American mine, and of the indispensable and trustworthy Nostromo himself. In the swirling world of Costaguana, as in the London of The Secret Agent, the psychology of individuals in the most extreme cirumstances reflects the fears and hopes of the time.

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Two screenplays adapted from novels by Joseph Conrad. One is set in London and the basis of the central action is an attack on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894. "Nostromo" concerns an attempt to rescue the silver of a Latin American mine from the hands of a revolutionary dictator.

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