Overview
The Penguin English Library Edition of The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
''Madness and despair! Give me that for a lever, and I''ll move the world''
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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- | Author: Joseph Conrad
- | Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- | Publication Date: Jul 26, 2012
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- | Binding: Paperback / softback
- | ISBN-13: 9780141199559
- | ISBN-10: 0141199555