The Penguin English Library Edition of The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad'Madness and despair! Give me that for a lever,and I'll move the world'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.The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction written in English,from the eighteenth century and the very first novels,to the beginning of the First World War.
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780141199559Number of pages: 288Weight: 202 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 13 mm
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