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The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (Modern Library 100 Best Novels) by Joseph Conrad is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The Secret Agent is the unsurpassed ancestor of a long series of twentieth-century novels and films which explore the confused motives that lie at the heart of political terrorism. In its use of powerful psychological insight to intensify narrative suspense, it set the terms by which subsequent works in its genre were created. Conrad was the first novelist to discover the strange in-between territory of the political exile, and his genius was such that we still have no truer map of that region's moral terrain than his story of a terrorist plot and its tragic consequences for the guilty and innocent alike.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.

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Author

Joseph Conrad

Publisher

Random House Publishing Group

Published

1906

Language

EN

ISBN

9780679641278

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Thriller, Adventure

Rating

3.9 / 5 (489 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14