The Secret Agent
by Joseph Conrad
Publisher: B. Tauchnitz 1907
ISBN/ASIN: 0486419185
Number of pages: 354
Description:
A group of revolutionaries in the backstreets of 19th-century London plot the destruction of the Greenwich Observatory in this 1907 masterpiece of suspense. Rich in atmosphere and psychological realism, the tale centers on a shopkeeper whose double life encompasses a quiet family circle, active friendships with anarchists, and allegiance to a foreign government.
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