Inquieta recordar que un paisaje terrorífico muy semejante al que
se vivió en Londres el 7 de julio de 2005 apareció descrito hace
casi un siglo por Joseph Conrad en El agente secreto. Esto
podría si
La línea de la sombra es una de las más grandes obras de habla
inglesa y una de las obras maestras de Conrad. Y no sólo se
debe a su impecable factura o a la grandiosa imagen del hombre
de mar luchan
Nueva traducción de "Una avanzada del progreso", considerada la mejor novela corta de Joseph Conrad, uno de los maestros del género.
Joseph Conrad uno de los autores en lengua in
The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket.' 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 Verloc, a Russian spy working for the police, and ostensibly a member of an anarchist group in Soho. His masters instruct him to discredit the anarchists in a humiliating fashion, and when his evil plan goes horribly awry, Verlac must deal with the repercussions of his actions. This is a new series of twenty distinctive, unforgettable Penguin Classics in a beautiful new design and pocket-sized format, with coloured jackets echoing Penguin's original covers.
Oxford University Press España, S.A. 9780199549771
Chance(1914) was the first of Conrad's novels to bring him popular success and it holds a unique place among his works. It tells the story of Flora de Barral, a vulnerable and abandoned young girl who is "like a beggar, without a right to anything but compassion." After her bankrupt father is imprisoned, she learns the harsh fact that a woman in her position "has no resources but in herself." Her only means of action is to be what she is. Flora's long struggle to achieve some dignity and happiness makes her Conrad's most moving female character. Reflecting the contemporary interest in the New Woman and the Suffragette question, Chance also marks the final appearance of Marlow, Conrad's most effective and wise narrator. This revised edition uses the English first edition text and has a new chronology and bibliography.
