The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale
- ISBN-10
- 0140620567
- ISBN-13
- 9780140620566
- Series
- The Secret Agent
- Category
- Conspiracies
- Pages
- 248
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1994
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, Limited (UK)
- Author
- Joseph Conrad
Description
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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