基本信息出版社：Dover Publications
页码：208 页
出版日期：2001年11月
ISBN：0486419185
条形码：9780486419183
装帧：平装
丛书名：Dover Thrift Editions
外文书名：特工

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A group of revolutionaries in the backstreets of 19th-century London plot the destruction of the Greenwich Observatory in this 1907 masterpiece of suspense. Rich in atmosphere and psychological realism, the tale centers on a shopkeeper whose double life encompasses a quiet family circle, active friendships with anarchists, and allegiance to a foreign government.
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Thoroughly ironic and even sarcastic, this early, atypical Conrad novel is an ultimately tragic, comedy of errors spy story, which challenges the oral interpreter to set the right tone. Lean too heavily on the Dickensian caricatures and the tale seems a tastelessly cruel joke. Go too far the other way and you miss the point, as well as the humor. In a laconic narration, Alex Jennings renders the abridgment slyly and gives excellent impersonations of the characters. However, the recording still misses something essential in the book''s personality. Y.R. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.