The Secret Agent
Author: Conrad, Joseph
ISBN: 9780141441580
Publisher: Penguin
Year First Published: 2007
Pages: 320
Dimensions: 196mm x 128mm x 19mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
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.
ISBN: 9780141441580
Publisher: Penguin
Year First Published: 2007
Pages: 320
Dimensions: 196mm x 128mm x 19mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
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.
