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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'They swarmed numerous like locusts, industrious like ants, thoughtless like a natural force, pushing on blind and orderly and absorbed, impervious to sentiment, to logic - to terror, too, perhaps.' Considered one of Conrad's most political works, The Secret Agent is set against the dismal backdrop of a drab and alienating London, and tells the story of the bombing of Greenwich Observatory by a group of anarchists. Shopkeeper, spy and reluctant anarchist Mr Verloc becomes embroiled in this terrorist plot, exploiting his mentally disabled brother-in-law Stevie in the process, leading to tragic circumstances.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Crime & mystery Classic crime

• Full title: Secret Agent
• Author: Joseph Conrad
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336
• EAN: 9780007420261
• ISBN: 0007420269
• ID: 01320098
• Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers
• Weight: 186 g
• Dimensions: 108 × 177 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. January 2011

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