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The Secret Agent; a Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Secret Agent; a Simple Tale about?
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. <br> Based on the text which Conrad's first Eng
Who reads The Secret Agent; a Simple Tale?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Joseph Conrad
- Publisher
- Barnes & Noble;[Andrews]
- Published
- 2006
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781411430105
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Political
- Rating
- 3.59 / 5 (91 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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