The Secret Agent
Editorial ALLEN LANE
Mainland Spain
- Publisher ALLEN LANE
- ISBN13 9780241259528
- ISBN10 0241259525
- Type BOOK
- Published 2016
- Language English
Subjects
English LiteratureThe Secret Agent
Editorial ALLEN LANE
Mainland Spain
Book details
'The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket.' 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. 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.