The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale

Author: Joseph Conrad

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  • : 9780141441580
  • : Penguin UK
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  • : August 1907
  • : 198mm X 129mm X 18mm
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In the only novel Conrad set in London, "The Secret Agent" communicates a profoundly ironic view of human affairs. The story is woven around an attack on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894 masterminded by Verloc, a Russian spy working for the police, and ostensibly a member of an anarchist group in Soho. His masters instruct him to discredit the anarchists in a humiliating fashion, and when his evil plan goes horribly awry, Verlac must deal with the repercussions of his actions.

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