Author : Joseph Conrad
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141974540
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis The Secret Agent by : Joseph Conrad
Download or read book The Secret Agent written by Joseph Conrad and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-07-26 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a note by the author. '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.