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The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (Oxford World's Classics)
The Secret Agent A Simple Tale - Oxford World's Classics Author:Joseph Conrad 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 Verlac, a Russian spy working for the police, and ostensibly a member of an anarchist group in Soho. His masters instruct him to discredit the ... more »anarchists in a humiliating fashion, and when his evil plan goes horribly awry, Verlac must deal with the repercussions of his actions.« less