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The secret agent : a simple tale

Conrad, Joseph, 1857-19242007
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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.
Main title:
The secret agent : a simple tale / Joseph Conrad ; with an introduction by Giles Foden.
Imprint:
London : Vintage, 2007.
Collation:
xxv, 283 p. ; 20 cm.
Series title:
Notes:
First published: 1907.
ISBN:
9780099511533
Dewey class:
823.912
Language:
English
BRN:
116149
LocationCollectionCall numberStatus/Desc
Library at the DockFictionCONROn loan - Due: 17 Jul 2026
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