by Joseph Conrad · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140180961
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«The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale» is Joseph Conrad's spy novel, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (272 pages, in English).
Novel based on a real attempt to bomb the Greenwich Observatory in 1894. In early 20th-century London, agent Verloc moves between a band of anarchists, the police and his own double game, in a story that portrays the sordid face of the city and veers into a black satire of English society.
This edition includes an introduction and notes by Martin Seymour-Smith and belongs to the Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics series. The novel was originally published in 1907.
It is suitable for readers of English literary classics and for those seeking spy fiction with political and social background.
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