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The Secret Agent : A Simple Tale

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This is the only novel that Conrad set in London, and it communicates a profoundly ironic view of human affairs.

The story is woven around an attack on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894.

Verloc, a Russian spy who is also working for the police, is ostensibly a member of an anarchist group in Soho.

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Product Details
Penguin Classics
0141182628 / 9780141182629
Paperback
823.912
30/03/2000
United Kingdom
English
Classics
272p.
20 cm
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