The Secret Agent A Simple Tale

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 Verlac, a Russian spy working for the police, and ostensibly a member of an anarchist group in Soh...

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Main Author: Conrad, Joseph (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University 1983
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