Product Description

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #22836 in Books
• Published on: 2001-11-09
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .59" h x 5.18" w x 8.18" l, .32 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

From AudioFile
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. Geoffrey Howard gallops through the narrative without trying though he fittingly gets caught up in the excellent prose. However, the recording still misses something essential in the book's personality. Y.R. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine

Ingram
One one of the great detective novels of all time, "The Secret Conrad", written in 1903, is a magisterial thriller of terrorists and police in London in the early years of the 20th century.

From the Publisher
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