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The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale of Anarchy
The Secret Agent A Simple Tale of Anarchy Author:Joseph Conrad FULL and COMPLETE EDITION! A story about people in the dark exotic world of Conrad's London. This is a grim, gritty, cynical tale set in the world of anarchists and secret agents - deliciously tangible sense of the seedy underworld at play around the start of the 20th century. Conrad personifies the mist, funk and squalor of London until the... more » city itself nearly becomes a character itself. Mr Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London's Soho, with his wife, her infirm mother, and her disabled brother. When Verloc is pulled into an anarchist plot to blow up the Greenwich Observatory things go disastrously wrong, and what appears to be 'a simple tale' proves to involve politicians, policemen, foreign diplomats and London's fashionable society in the darkest and most surprising interrelations. One of Conrad's best - it pulls the reader into the depth of the characters like no other - one accurately 'feels' the pain and terror he creates. A truly magnificent read.« less