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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| ISBN: | 9780141199559 |
| Publication date: | 26th July 2012 |
| Author: | Joseph Conrad |
| Publisher: | Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 277 pages |
| Series: | Penguin English Library |
| Genres: |
Classic fiction: general and literary |