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Conrad's great London novel
Oxford University Press
May 2004
304 pages
ISBN: 0192801694
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Mr Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London's Soho
where he lives with his wife Winnie, her infirm mother, and
her idiot brother, Stevie. When Verloc is reluctantly
involved in an anarchist plot to blow up the Greenwich
Observatory things go disastrously wrong, and what appears
to be 'a simple tale' proves to involve politicians,
policemen, foreign diplomats and London's fashionable
society in the darkest and most surprising interrelations.
Based on the text which Conrad's first English readers
enjoyed, this new edition includes a full and up-to-date
bibliography, a comprehensive chronology and a critical
introduction which describes Conrad's great London novel as
the realization of a 'monstrous town,' a place of idiocy,
madness, criminality, and butchery. It also discusses
contemporary anarchist activity in the UK, imperialism, and
Conrad's narrative techniques.
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