# The Secret Agent

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- Libro: [The Secret Agent](https://www.archivodelibros.es/joseph-conrad/en/the-secret-agent) ([The Secret Agent.md](https://www.archivodelibros.es/joseph-conrad/en/the-secret-agent.md))
- Autores: [Joseph Conrad](https://www.archivodelibros.es/joseph-conrad)
- Editorial: Penguin Classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4119-955-9
- Páginas: 288
- Publicación: 2012-07-26
- Idioma: en_GB
- Encuadernación: Softcover

## Descripción

'Madness and despair! Give me that for a lever, and I'll move the world' In the only novel Conrad set in London, The Secret Agent communicates a profoundly ironic view of human affairs. The story is woven around an attack on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894 masterminded by Verloc, a Russian spy working for the police, and ostensibly a member of an anarchist group in Soho. His masters instruct him to discredit the anarchists in a humiliating fashion, and when his evil plan goes horribly awry, Verlac must deal with the repercussions of his actions.