The secret agent
In this intense espionage thriller set in the late nineteenth century and written in 1907, decades before Graham Greene and John le Carre, Joseph Conrad tells the "simple tale" of a double agent in an anarchist cell. But when Mr. Verloc keeper of a seedy London shop where he lives with his wife, his infirm mother-in-law, and his delicate brother-in-law, becomes involved in an attempt to bomb the Greenwich Observatory, the outcome is anything but simple.
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| Royal Greenwich Observatory > Fiction. Bombings > Fiction. Anarchists > Fiction. Conspiracies > Fiction. London (England) > Fiction. |
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| Spy fiction. |
- ISBN: 9780141441580
- Physical Description 269 pages ; 20 cm.
- Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2007.
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| General Note: | First published in 1907. |
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The Secret Agent : A Simple Tale
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The Secret Agent : A Simple Tale
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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