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  • Published: 19 September 2012
  • ISBN: 9780141199559
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $22.00

The Secret Agent





The new paperback series: Penguin English Library

'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.

  • Published: 19 September 2012
  • ISBN: 9780141199559
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $22.00

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