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'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.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

• Full title: Secret Agent
• Author: Joseph Conrad
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288
• EAN: 9780141199559
• ISBN: 0141199555
• ID: 04476227
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Weight: 204 g
• Dimensions: 195 × 130 × 14 mm
• Date of publishing: 26. July 2012

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