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The Secret Agent (Oxford World's Classics) by Joseph Conrad is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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. Based on the text which Conrad's first English readers enjoyed, this new edition includes a full and up-to-date bibliography, a comprehensive chronology and a critical introduction which describes Conrad's great London novel as the realization of a "monstrous town," a place of idiocy, madness, criminality, and savage butchery. It also discusses contemporary anarchist activity in the UK, imperialism, and Conrad's narrative techniques.

Who reads The Secret Agent (Oxford World's Classics)?

Author

Joseph Conrad

Publisher

IRL Press at Oxford University Press

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9780192801692

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Thriller, Mystery

Rating

3.59 / 5 (11,873 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14