The Secret Agent

''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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Product details

• Authors: Joseph Conrad
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.08.2012
• EAN: 9780141199559
• ISBN: 978-0-14-119955-9
• No. of pages: 277
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 197 mm x 14 mm
• Series: The Penguin English Library; Penguin Classics; Penguin English Library
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Thrillers / Espionage, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction: general and literary