by Joseph Conrad · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140020595
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«The Secret Agent» is Joseph Conrad's spy novel, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (256 pages, in English).
Mr Verloc, a secret agent, runs a shop in Soho with his wife Winnie and her brother Stevie. Reluctantly involved in an anarchist plot to blow up the Greenwich Observatory, the plan ends in disaster. With irony and temporal leaps, the plot connects anarchists, policemen, diplomats and London high society.
Novel originally published in 1907. This edition belongs to the Penguin Modern Classics collection and reproduces on its cover a detail from «Hampstead Hill» (1863), by John Atkinson Grimshaw.
For readers of English classics and spy novels, with an interest in social criticism and late 19th-century narrative.
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