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The secret agent

Joseph Conrad's captivating tale of anarchy, terrorism, and espionage is presented in graphic novel format. Set in London in 1886, the story follows the life of the seemingly ordinary Mr. Adolf Verloc--businessman, husband--and spy. When Verloc's plan to sabotage a group of local anarchists goes horribly wrong, his two lives threaten to collide with catastrophic results.

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  • "Joseph Conrad"@en
  • "Secter agent"
  • "Secret agent: a simple tale"
  • "The secret agent"@it
  • "Secret agent"@pl
  • "Secret agent"@it
  • "Secret agent"

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  • "Set in late-nineteenth-century London, Joseph Conrad's intense political thriller anticipates the espionage novels of such writers as Graham Greene and John le Carre. It concerns a double agent who is charged with provoking the radical group he has infiltrated into an act of sabotage that will bring about its own destruction. In a marvelously drawn underworld of political and criminal intrigue, Conrad brilliantly explores the confused motives that lie at the heart of terrorism. Extraordinarily modern in the ironic view it takes of human affairs, this masterly tale of conspiracy builds to a climax that the critic F. R. Leavis called "one of the most astonishing triumphs of genius in fiction.""
  • ""Adolf Verloc is a double agent, working for both the British police and a foreign country. He pretends to live a normal life, with his wife, Winnie, and has a shop in London, which, at night, becomes a meeting place for anarchists. One day Verloc is told to plant a bomb - but the plan goes terribly wrong... Does Verloc really love Winnie, or is she just part of his cover? Can Winnie ever forgive him? Who is Verloc really working for?"--P. [4] of cover."
  • "Joseph Conrad's captivating tale of anarchy, terrorism, and espionage is presented in graphic novel format. Set in London in 1886, the story follows the life of the seemingly ordinary Mr. Adolf Verloc--businessman, husband--and spy. When Verloc's plan to sabotage a group of local anarchists goes horribly wrong, his two lives threaten to collide with catastrophic results."@en
  • "HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'They swarmed numerous like locusts, industrious like ants, thoughtless like a natural force, pushing on blind and orderly and absorbed, impervious to sentiment, to logic ' to terror, too, perhaps.' Considered one of Conrad's most political works, The Secret Agent is set against the dismal backdrop of a drab and alienating London, and tells the story of the bombing of Greenwich Observatory by a group of anarchists. Shopkeeper, spy and reluctant anarchist Mr Verloc becomes embroiled in this terrorist plot, exploiting his mentally disabled brother-in-law Stevie in the process, leading to tragic circumstances."
  • "Secret terror cells, political conspiracy, police bungling, state-sponsored bomb plots. This is London, 1896. Inspired by Joseph Conrad's classic novel, The Secret Agent is Theatre O's heartbreaking and hilarious chronicle of passion, betrayal and terrorism. Set at a time of social upheaval and growing disparity between rich and poor, at the heart of this tale is a woman fighting to protect her young brother from exploitation and violence. In their trademark highly imaginative style, described by The New York Times as, "vivid, enlightening, inventive and compelling", music hall and early cinema collide in theatre O's return to the stage after five years away."@en
  • "Een armoedige Londense winkelier blijkt een Russische spion te zijn. Hij krijgt de opdracht een aanslag te plegen op het Greenwich-observatorium. Met kleurenfoto's, opdrachten, een MultiRom en een cd met het voorgelezen verhaal en verschillende activiteiten."
  • "Een armoedige Londense winkelier spioneert bij een anarchistische groep en verkoopt zijn inlichtingen aan het buitenland."
  • "Verloc is the proprietor of rundown shop in Soho and a double agent, hired as a spy by a foreign embassy while working as an informer to Scotland Yard. His shop is the meetingplace for political fantatics and revolutionaries, including an American terrorist known as 'the Professor' and a Russian agent provocateur. The embassay involves Verloc in an attempted bombing of the famed Greenwich Observatory that goes tragically wrong for both Verloc and his brother-in-law. This novel reveals the dark vein of irony that runs through all of Conrad's major works. The Alfred Hitchcock film, The Sabotage (1936), was based on it."
  • "Mr Verloc is an anarchist and wants to see a revolution in Britain. But he is a lazy man and just wants to look after his shop. Then Mr Vladimir orders him to bomb the Greenwich Observatory in London. Mr Verloc does not want to bomb this building. Will he do the job, and what will happen when it all goes wrong?"
  • "The Secret Agent is set in the seedy world of Adolf Verloc, a storekeeper and double agent in late-Victorian London who pretends to sympathize with a group of international anarchists but reports on their activities to both the Russian embassy and the British government. As he is drawn further into a terrorist bombing plot, his family also becomes involved, with devastating consequences. Based on a real-life failed anarchist plot, The Secret Agent is both intimately engaged with its historical moment and profoundly relevant today."@en
  • "The Secret Agent deals broadly with anarchism, espionage, terrorism, and exploitation. Due to its examinations of terrorists, The Secret Agent has been noted as one of the most cited literary works in the American media post September 11th. This novel can be see as both pro and anti terrorist. A complicated view into a dark and dangerous world."@en
  • "Joseph Conrads Krimi mit politischem Hintergrund ist eine bitterböse und vorweg genommene Anklage auf Anarchie und Terrorismus. Erzählt wird die Geschichte des Londoner Geheimagenten Verloc, der als Ladenbesitzer getarnt, immer mehr zum Anlaufpunkt anarchistischer Gestalten wird, die ihn schliesslich zu einem Attentat drängen. Dann lässt sich die Katastrophe nicht mehr aufhalten ... Die Serie "Meisterwerke der Literatur" beinhaltet die Klassiker der deutschen und weltweiten Literatur in einer einzigartigen Sammlung. Lesen Sie die besten Werke grosser Schriftsteller, Poeten, Autoren und Philosophen auf Ihrem elektronischen Lesegerät. Dieses Werk bietet zusätzlich * Eine Biografie/Bibliografie des Autors."
  • "Tropische Wildnis, unendliche See, das sind die Szenerien, mit denen sich Joseph Conrads Name verbindet. In diesem Roman, seinem nach eigenem Urteil besten, tritt eine andere, nicht weniger unerbittliche Erfahrungswelt in den Blickpunkt: der Moloch Großstadt. Ein historischer Vorfall bildet den Angelpunkt für Conrads fesselnden Kriminalroman, der den Leser mitten hineinführt ins finstere Herz der Zivilisation."
  • "Set in 19th Century England The Secret Agent is an intriguing story of espionage, counter-espionage and corruption on both sides of the law. When Adolf Verloc, international spy for the Russian Embassy, is assigned the task of blowing-up the Greenwich Observatory, incompetence and fear-of persecution come in to play with ironic and catastrophic consequences."@en
  • "Een armoedige Londense winkelier blijkt een Russische spion te zijn. Hij krijgt de opdracht een aanslag te plegen op het Greenwich-observatorium. Met kleurenfoto's, opdrachten, een MultiRom en een cd met het voorgelezen verhaal en verschillende activiteiten. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar."
  • "In turn-of-the-century London, an undercover, counter-revolutionary mole provokes a radical group he has penetrated into an act of violence that will bring about its own destruction."
  • "In a rough-and-ready shop in Soho in Victorian London, Mr. Verloc lives a humble existence sustaining himself, his wife, her infirm mother, and her disabled brother, Stevie. But all is not as it seems with Mr. Verloc, a secret agent in the employ of a foreign government. When a plot to bomb Greenwich Observatory falls apart, Verloc's identity is exposed, and those closest to him must bear the burden of his failures. Harkening back to the writings of Charles Dickens, Joseph Conrad's early masterpiece effectively explores themes of subversion, politics, and crime. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library."@en
  • "In the only novel Conrad set in London, The Secret Agent communicates a profoundly ironic view of human affairs. The story is woven around an attack on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894 masterminded by Verlac, a Russian spy working for the police, and ostensibly a member of an anarchist group in Soho."@en

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  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Large type books"
  • "Problems and exercises"
  • "Ausgabe"
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Adaptations"@en
  • "Fiction"@tr
  • "Fiction"@es
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Spy stories"
  • "Spy stories"@en
  • "Downloadable Crossroad Press ebooks"@en
  • "Powieść angielska"@pl
  • "Powieść angielska"
  • "Mystery fiction"
  • "Problems, exercises, etc"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Livres électroniques"
  • "Drama"@en
  • "Romans à clef"@en
  • "Textbooks"
  • "Historische Romane und Erzählungen"
  • "English fiction"
  • "Young adult works"@en
  • "Anglické romány"
  • "Translations"
  • "undervisningsmaterialer"
  • "Young adult fiction"@en
  • "Readers"@en
  • "Krimis, Thriller, Spionage"
  • "Online-Publikation"
  • "Political fiction"
  • "Political fiction"@en
  • "Verhalend proza"
  • "musique contemporaine (depuis 1945) (musique classique)"
  • "Graphic novels"@en
  • "Erzählende Literatur: Hauptwerk vor 1945"
  • "Comic books, strips, etc"@en

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  • "L'agent secret : una història senzilla"
  • "Tajny agent"@pl
  • "Tajny agent"
  • "Provokatören : en sannfärdig berättelse"@sv
  • "Тайный агент"
  • "El agente secreto"@es
  • "El agente secreto"
  • "El agente secreto"@ca
  • "Taĭnyĭ agent"
  • "O mystikos praktoras : mythistorēma"
  • "Anarkostit : yksinkertainen tarina"
  • "Der Geheimagent : Roman"
  • "Der Geheimagent : Roman von Joseph Conrad"
  • "Provokatören"
  • "L'agente segreto : semplice storia"@it
  • "L'agente segreto : semplice storia"
  • "Tajny agent. opowieść prosta"
  • "Der Geheimagent eine einfache Geschichte ; Roman"
  • "Der Geheimagent eine einfache Geschichte"
  • "El agente secreto : Una historia simple"@es
  • "\El\\agente secreto. Una historia simple"
  • "El agente secreto : (una simple historia)"@es
  • "Der geheimagent"
  • "The secret agent"@en
  • "The secret agent"
  • "Der Geheimagent : eine einfache Geschichte"
  • "al-ʻAmīl al-sirr ī = Secret agent"
  • "El Agente secreto : un relato sencillo"
  • "L' agente segreto"@it
  • "The secret agent : a simple tale"@en
  • "Anarkistit"@fi
  • "Der geheimagent : Roman"
  • "Agentul secret"
  • "Agente Secreto"
  • "Der Geheimagent : eine einfache Geschichte : Roman"
  • "El agente secreto : una historia simple"@es
  • "O agente secreto"
  • "Anarkistit : yksinkertainen tarina"@fi
  • "The Secret agent"
  • "The Secret agent"@en
  • "L'agent secret"
  • "De geheime agent"
  • "Agente segreto"
  • "El agente secreto : una simple historia"
  • "El agente secreto : un relato sencillo"@es
  • "L'agente segreto = The secret Agent : romanzo"@it
  • "Der Geheimagent e. einfache Geschichte"
  • "Tajny agent opowieść prosta"
  • "El Agente secreto : una simple historia"
  • "Der Geheimagent : eine einfache Geschichte ; Roman"
  • "L'agento segreto"
  • "L'agent secret/ Joseph Conrad ; trad. de l'anglais par Vladimir Volkoff"
  • "Un agente secreto una historia simple"@es
  • "The secret Agent"
  • "El Agente secreto : una historia simple"
  • "Der Geheimagent Roman"
  • "The Secret Agent"@es
  • "The Secret Agent"@en
  • "The Secret Agent"
  • "AGENT SECRET"
  • "Tajni agent : preprosta zgodba"
  • "Tajni agent : preprosta zgodba"@sl
  • "El agente secreto : (The Secret Agent)"
  • "Tajny agent : opowieść prosta"@pl
  • "Tajny agent : opowieść prosta"
  • "El Agente secreto"
  • "Der Geheimagent Erweiterte Ausgabe"
  • "L'agente segreto : romanzo"
  • "L'agente segreto : romanzo"@it
  • "O mystikos praktoras"
  • "Der Geheimagent : Eine einfache Geschichte"
  • "El agente secreto un relato sencillo"
  • "Secret agent"
  • "Secret agent"@en
  • "Secret Agent"@en
  • "Secret Agent"
  • "L'agente segreto"@it
  • "L'agente segreto"
  • "al-ʻAmīl al-sirr ī"
  • "Agentul secret : [roman]"
  • "L'Agent secret"
  • "L'Agent secret"@ca
  • "Der Geheimagent; eine einfache Geschichte"
  • "Casus"@tr
  • "Casus"
  • "Tajný agent : prostá historie"
  • "Der Geheimagent"
  • "L'Agent secret : una història senzilla"
  • "ˆDer‰ Geheimagent"
  • "De geheim agent"
  • "Den hemmelige agent : en enkel historie : roman"@da
  • "Den hemmelige agent : en enkel historie : roman"
  • "Der Geheimagent : e. einfache Geschichte"
  • "Tajni agent"
  • "Tajni agent"@sl
  • "Der geheimagent, roman"
  • "Taĭnyĭ agent : roman"

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