The Resource The secret agent : a simple tale, by Joseph Conrad
The secret agent : a simple tale, by Joseph Conrad
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The item The secret agent : a simple tale, by Joseph Conrad represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in DC Public Library System.This item is available to borrow from 5 library branches.
Resource Information
The item The secret agent : a simple tale, by Joseph Conrad represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in DC Public Library System.
This item is available to borrow from 5 library branches.
- Summary
- This is Joseph Conrad's 1907 novel, ?The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale?. Set in London in 1886, it concerns Mr. Adolf Verloc, a spy who works for an unknown country. The novel is significant as it was one of Conrad's later political novels, representing a divergence from his earlier stories of seafaring. ?The Secret Agent? deals with ideas of anarchism, terrorism, espionage, and exploitation. Modern Library ranked it the 46th most significant novel of the 20th century and, due to its themes, was one of the most referenced novels in American media subsequent to the 9/11 attacks. Joseph Conrad (1857 ? 1924) was a Polish-British writer considered to be amongst the greatest novelists in the English language
- Language
- eng
- Isbn
- 9781473332560
- Label
- The secret agent : a simple tale
- Title
- The secret agent
- Title remainder
- a simple tale
- Statement of responsibility
- by Joseph Conrad
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- This is Joseph Conrad's 1907 novel, ?The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale?. Set in London in 1886, it concerns Mr. Adolf Verloc, a spy who works for an unknown country. The novel is significant as it was one of Conrad's later political novels, representing a divergence from his earlier stories of seafaring. ?The Secret Agent? deals with ideas of anarchism, terrorism, espionage, and exploitation. Modern Library ranked it the 46th most significant novel of the 20th century and, due to its themes, was one of the most referenced novels in American media subsequent to the 9/11 attacks. Joseph Conrad (1857 ? 1924) was a Polish-British writer considered to be amongst the greatest novelists in the English language
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1857-1924
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Conrad, Joseph
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PZ3.C764
- LC item number
- Se
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- London (England)
- Conspiracies
- Anarchists
- Bombings
- Label
- The secret agent : a simple tale, by Joseph Conrad
- Control code
- ocm00943605
- Isbn
- 9781473332560
- Isbn Type
- (paperback)
- Lccn
- 07029428
- Label
- The secret agent : a simple tale, by Joseph Conrad
- Control code
- ocm00943605
- Isbn
- 9781473332560
- Isbn Type
- (paperback)
- Lccn
- 07029428
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