The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale - 9780199536351

Mr Verloc, the secret agent, is involved in an anarchist plot to blow up the Greenwich Observatory which goes disastrously wrong. Based on the text which Conrad's first English readers enjoyed, this new edition includes a critical introduction which describes Conrad's great London novel as the realization of a 'monstrous town', a place of idiocy, madness, criminality, and butchery.

• | By (Author): Joseph Conrad
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: Jun 12, 2008
• | Country of Publication: United Kingdom
• | Number of Pages: 304 pages
• | Language: Not Available
• | Binding: Paperback|Softback
• | ISBN-10: 019953635X
• | ISBN-13: 9780199536351