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The Secret Agent A Simple Tale

Paperback • 1998 • English

The Secret Agent A Simple Tale

By Joseph Conrad

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About the book

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 Verlac, 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.

Espionage and spy thriller

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Book details

ISBN

9780192834775

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published year

1998

Language

English

Original title

The Secret Agent A Simple Tale

Format

Paperback

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