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  The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (Paperback) By (author) Joseph Conrad

  

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  Short Description for The Secret AgentWeaves 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.
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  • Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS
  • Published: 24 February 1994
  • Format: Paperback 256 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Classics | Thrillers
  • ISBN 13: 9780140620566 ISBN 10: 0140620567
  • Sales rank: 27,779

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• 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.