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  • Published: 22 June 2000
  • ISBN: 9780141922430
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 272

The Secret Agent





Published alongside other Conrad's works, on the 150th anniversary of his birth

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.

  • Published: 22 June 2000
  • ISBN: 9780141922430
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 272

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On Sparta
Love
Annals
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