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The secret agent : a simple tale / Joseph Conrad ; edited with and introduction and notes by Michael Newton ; general editor, J.H. Stape.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Penguin, 2007.Description: xl, 269 p. : maps ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 0141441585 (pbk.)
  • 9780141441580 (pbk.)
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Fiction Conrad Joseph Available 33111007037241
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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.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxxiii]-xxxvi)

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