The Secret Agent (Penguin Popular Classics)

Type

Book

Authors

Joseph Conrad

ISBN 10

0140620567

ISBN 13

9780140620566

Tags

Classics, Criticism & Theory, Espionage

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. - from Amzon

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