| Collection Title: | Penguin Popular Classics | | Title : | The Secret Agent | | Material Type: | printed text | | Authors: | Conrad, Joseph, Author | | Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd. | | Publication Date: | 1994 | | Pagination: | pp. 249 | | ISBN (or other code): | 978-0-14-062056-6 | | Price: | 1.99 | | General note: | Full Text | | Class number: | 823.83:CON | | Abstract: | 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. |
Penguin Popular Classics. The Secret Agent [printed text] / Conrad, Joseph, Author . - London, England : Penguin Books Ltd., 1994 . - pp. 249. ISBN : 978-0-14-062056-6 : 1.99 Full Text | Class number: | 823.83:CON | | Abstract: | 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. |
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