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The secret agent : a simple tale / Joseph Conrad.

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ISBN	9780141199559 (pbk.)
ISBN	0141199555 (pbk.)
Name	Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924
Title	The secret agent : a simple tale / Joseph Conrad.
Edition	New ed.
Published	London : Penguin, 2012.
Description	277 p. ; 20 cm.
Summary	'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.
Subjects	Radicalism -- Fiction
	Conspiracies -- England -- Fiction
	Terrorism -- Fiction
Genre	Classical fiction
Series	Penguin English Library
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Classical fiction . Conspiracies -- England -- Fiction . Radicalism -- Fiction . Terrorism -- Fiction . Authors: Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 . Series: Penguin English Library .