The secret agent a simple tale6/8/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() This was also to be Conrad’s great London novel. These bare statements set Conrad off on a train of thought that eventually led to his writing the novel, foregrounding the domestic tragedy of the Bourdin incident against a background of revolutionary types whom Conrad despised. His sister committed suicide afterwards.” ’ I pointed all this out to my friend, who remained silent for a while and then remarked in his characteristically casual and omniscient manner: “Oh, that fellow was half an idiot. Conrad later, in 1920, wrote: ‘We recalled the already old story of the attempt to blow up the Greenwich Observatory a blood-stained inanity of so fatuous a kind that it was impossible to fathom its origin by any reasonable or even unreasonable process of thought. Louis-Ferdinand Celine: Guignol's Band I & IIĬonrad had in fact forgotten all about this once notorious incident, until his friend, the author Ford Madox Ford, brought it up one day in conversation, in 1906. ![]() John Sommerfield: Trouble in Porter Street Pamela Hansford Johnson: This Bed Thy Centre ![]()
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