- Publishing house :
- PENGUIN CLASSICS
- Year of edition:
- 2012
- ISBN:
- 978-0-14-119955-9
- Pages :
- 288
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THE SECRET AGENT
CONRAD, JOSEPH
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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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