4.1
The Secret Agent A Simple Tale (Aziloth Books)
What has been called Conrad's "most chilling novel" is set around an actual historical event, the 1894 anarchist attack on London's Greenwich Observatory. Conrad uses this terrorist outrage to examine the darkness and duplicity of human nature, while London itself takes on all the semblance of a individual, a gloomy, quasi-Gothic location, a haunting presence that colours and informs the cynical, self-interested behaviour of its inhabitants. In Conrad's own opinion 'The Secret Agent' has "doubt, fear... a black horror in every page..." The novel's themes are universal, and raise questions pertinent to terrorist activities in our own time.
FictionClassics
RELEASED2011
PUBLISHERAziloth Books
LENGTH164
LANGUAGEEN
Joseph Conrad was a Polish-born British novelist, who became a British subject in 1886. He is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English though he did not speak the language fluently until he was in his twenties (and then always with a marked Polish accent). He wrote stories and novels, predominantly with a nautical or seaboard setting, that depict trials of the human spirit by the demands of duty and honor. ([Source][1].) [1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Conrad
4.1
The Secret Agent A Simple Tale (Aziloth Books)
What has been called Conrad's "most chilling novel" is set around an actual historical event, the 1894 anarchist attack on London's Greenwich Observatory. Conrad uses this terrorist outrage to examine the darkness and duplicity of human nature, while London itself takes on all the semblance of a individual, a gloomy, quasi-Gothic location, a haunting presence that colours and informs the cynical, self-interested behaviour of its inhabitants. In Conrad's own opinion 'The Secret Agent' has "doubt, fear... a black horror in every page..." The novel's themes are universal, and raise questions pertinent to terrorist activities in our own time.
FictionClassics
RELEASED2011
PUBLISHERAziloth Books
LENGTH164
LANGUAGEEN
Joseph Conrad was a Polish-born British novelist, who became a British subject in 1886. He is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English though he did not speak the language fluently until he was in his twenties (and then always with a marked Polish accent). He wrote stories and novels, predominantly with a nautical or seaboard setting, that depict trials of the human spirit by the demands of duty and honor. ([Source][1].) [1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Conrad
