Inspired by an actual attempt to blow up the Greenwich Observatory,The Secret Agentportrays the world of late-nineteenth-century London, with its fatuous civil servants, corrupt police, and squalid underworld characters like Verloc, a pornographer acting as a government informant. Inspired by an actual attempt to blow up the Greenwich Observatory,The Secret Agentportrays the world of late-nineteenth-century London, with its fatuous civil servants, corrupt police, and squalid underworld characters like Verloc, a pornographer acting as a government informant. Verloc's assignment is to provoke the radicals whose group he has penetrated into committing an act of such violence that they will be discredited and their appeal to the masses destroyed. With its questionable characters and amoral caricatures, the novel is as much a black satire of English society as a frightening mirror of the present day. With an Introduction by E. L. Doctorowand a New Afterword by Debra Romanick Baldwin
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Penguin Putnam INC International Concepts
ISBN-13
9780451474292
eBay Product ID (ePID)
213188398
Product Key Features
Book Title
The Secret Agent
Author
Joseph Conrad
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Thriller
Publication Year
2015
Number of Pages
274 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
171mm
Item Width
106mm
Item Weight
141g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Joseph Conrad
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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