Packet 5: Tossup 19

In a novel by this author, a character who has his eardrums punctured by a potbellied terrorist leaves a confession related by a British teacher of languages. A mental breakdown in which this author babbled to his own characters, such as a student who turns in his classmate for throwing a bomb at a Tsarist minister, is related in Maya Jasanoff’s biography The Dawn Watch. (15[1])In a novel by this author, after the consular official Mr Vladimir calls him a “lazy” (*) anarchist, (10[2])Verloc (10[2])tasks (10[2])his (10[1])young (10[1])brother-in-law (10[3])with carrying an (10[1])explosive (10[3]-5[1])to (-5[1])Greenwich (10[2])Observatory. (10[7]-5[1])This author’s (10[1])“political” (10[2])novels (10[1])include Under Western (10[1])Eyes (10[1]-5[1])and a novel about an Italian “Capataz de Cargadores” who hides a silver cache in the fictional country of Costaguana. (10[3])For 10 points, The Secret Agent (10[1])and Nostromo are (10[1])by what (10[1])Polish-British (10[1])author? ■END■ (10[5])

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