The Secret Agent, a Simple Tale
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9781688466869
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"Madness alone is truly terrifying, inasmuch as you cannot placate it by threats, persuasion, or bribes."The Secret Agent, A Simple Tale is a novel by Joseph Conrad, published in 1907. The story is set in London in 1886 and deals with Mr Adolf Verloc and his work as a spy for an unnamed country (presumably Russia). The Secret Agent is one of Conrad's later political novels in which he moved away from his former tales of seafaring. Mr Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London's Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her infirm mother, and her idiot brother, Stevie. When Verloc is reluctantly involved in 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.
| ISBN-13 | 9781688466869 |
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| ISBN-10 | 168846686X |
| Weight | 0.81 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.51 In |
| List Price | $8.98 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Language | English |
| Pages | 204 pages |
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| Published On | 2019-08-25 |
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