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The Secret Agent
Joseph Conrad
其他書名
A Simple Tale
出版Cambridge University Press, 1990-05-25
主題Fiction / ClassicsFiction / LiteraryLiterary Collections / GeneralLiterary Criticism / General
ISBN05213413539780521341356
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=kp9uRMboUDMC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋The Secret Agent (1907) is a compelling tale of espionage and terrorism set in Edwardian London. Ironically subtitled 'A Simple Tale', it paints a terrifying portrait of revolutionaries and anarchists whose personal lives are as barren and futile as their public acts of violence. It concludes with the unwitting accomplice of a would-be terrorist blowing himself to bits with his own bomb, the terrorist's subsequent murder by his own wife, and the wife's own suicide. This new edition is based on a painstaking comparison of the original manuscript of the work with its first, truncated appearance in the American magazine Ridgeway's: A Militant Weekly for God and Country, and with all subsequent book-form publications overseen by Conrad himself. The result is a new text, purged of the printers' errors and editorial interventions that have been reproduced in all previous printings. There is also a critical introduction, an essay on the text, a textual apparatus, and helpful explanatory notes.