Length10h 11m
About this audiobook
Mr Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London's Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her infirm mother, and her idiot brother, Stevie. When Verloc is reluctantly involved in an anarchist plot to blow up the Greenwich Observatory things go disastrously wrong, and what appears to be "a simple tale" proves to involve politicians, policemen, foreign diplomats, and London's fashionable society in the darkest and most surprising interrelations.
Based on the text which Conrad's first English readers enjoyed, this new edition includes a full and up-to-date bibliography, a comprehensive chronology and a critical introduction which describes Conrad's great London novel as the realization of a "monstrous town," a place of idiocy, madness, criminality, and savage butchery. It also discusses contemporary anarchist activity in the UK, imperialism, and Conrad's narrative techniques.
Audiobook details
GenreMystery and Thriller
Length10 hrs 11 mins
Narrated byPeter Dann
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateNov 20, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1
10Chapter 8
2Chapter 2, Pt. 1
11Chapter 9, Pt. 1
3Chapter 2, Pt. 2
12Chapter 9, Pt. 2
4Chapter 3
13Chapter 10
5Chapter 4
14Chapter 11, Pt. 1
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6Chapter 5
15Chapter 11, Pt. 2
7Chapter 6, Pt. 1
16Chapter 12, Pt. 1
8Chapter 6, Pt. 2
17Chapter 12, Pt. 2
9Chapter 7
18Chapter 13
