The Secret Agent: 2a Simple Tale

Conrad, Joseph, and Seymour-Smith, Martin (Photographer)

ISBN 10: 0140432280 / ISBN 13: 9780140432282

Published by Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England, 1985

About this Item

Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. Penguin English Library. Audience: General/trade. No previous owner's name. Clean, tight pages. No bent corners. pb 136.

Seller Inventory # Alibris.0037877

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Secret Agent: 2a Simple Tale
• Publisher: Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England
• Publication Date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140432280
• ISBN 13: 9780140432282
• Binding: Trade paperback
• Condition: Fine.

About this title

Synopsis

From the seed of an actual attempt to blow up the Greenwich Observatory, this book recreates the world of the secret agent. The world of law and order is mirrored in its underworld, a squalid terrorist landscape inhabited by, among others, the professor, who carries a bomb in his pocket.

About the Author

Joseph Conrad's major works (all published by Penguin Classics) include Heart of Darkness, Nostromo, Lord Jim,Under Western Eyes, The Secret Agent and Typhoon.