The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad

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The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad

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Features a story that is about 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, and more.

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The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad

'The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket.' Set in an Edwardian London underworld of terrorist bombers, spies, grotesques and fanatics, Conrad's dark, unsettling masterpiece asks if we ever really know others, or ourselves. A new series of twenty distinctive, unforgettable Penguin Classics in a beautiful new design and pocket-sized format, with coloured jackets echoing Penguin's original covers.
The Secret Agent is an astonishing bookIt is one of the best-and certainly the most significant-detective stories ever written. -Ford Madox Ford

The Secret Agent is an altogether thrilling 'crime story' . . . a political novel of a foreign embassy intrigue and its tragic human outcome. -Thomas Mann

One of Conrad's supreme masterpieces. -F. R. Leavis

[The Secret Agent] was in effect the world's first political thriller-spies, conspirators, wily policemen, murders, bombings . . . Conrad was also giving artistic expression to his domestic anxieties-his overweight wife and problem child, his lack of money, his inactivity, his discomfort in London, his uneasiness in English society, his sense of exile, of being an alien . . . The novel has the perverse logic and derangement of a dream.
-from the Introduction to the Everyman's Library edition by Paul Theroux
Joseph Conrad's major works (all published by Penguin Classics) include Heart of Darkness, Nostromo, Lord Jim,Under Western Eyes, The Secret Agent and Typhoon.
SKU GOR008015118
ISBN 13 9780241259528
ISBN 10 0241259525
Title The Secret Agent
Author Joseph Conrad
Series Pocket Penguins
Condition very good
Binding type Paperback
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Year published 2016-05-26
Number of pages 320
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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