书名：The Secret Agent秘密间谍
作者：Joseph Conrad约瑟夫康拉德
出版社名称：Alma Books
出版时间：2020
语种：英语
ISBN：9781847498267
商品尺寸：12.6 x 2.2 x 20 cm
包装：平装
页数：300（以实物为准）

The shop owner Adolf Verloc, member of an anarchist group and secret agent for a foreign government, is summoned to meet Mr Vladimir, the country's ambassador, who asks him to carry out a terrorist attack at a famous London landmark. Verloc has misgivings, but Mr Vladimir knows how to make people do what he wants, and when the plan goes wrong, it is Verloc - as well as his young wife, Winnie - who must deal with the consequences.

A story of espionage, intrigue and corruption based on a real-life attempted terrorist attack in Victorian London, The Secret Agent was one of literature's first political thrillers, and is widely considered to be among Conrad's most compelling works.

约瑟夫·康拉德（Joseph Conrad，1857—1924），出生于波兰，20岁之前还不能流利地说英语，38岁时出版di一部小说，却被认为是用英语写作的作家中zui伟大的小说家之一。他十七岁时前往马赛学习航海，在海上生活达二十余年，36岁时因为糟糕的健康和对写作的痴迷而放弃海上生活，开始专著于小说创作。康拉德一生共出版长、短篇作品四十余部，是英国现代小说的先行者之一。他的叙事风格和反英雄人物塑造影响了后世很多作家，包括D.H.劳伦斯、F.S.菲茨杰拉德、威廉·福克纳、欧内斯特·海明威、伊塔罗·卡尔维诺、加西亚·马尔克斯、V.S.奈保尔、J.M.库切等诸多文学大师。

Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) was a Polish-born English novelist, whose works, most famously Heart of Darkness, took a cynical view of imperialism when the British Empire was at its apogee.