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Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 1850892490
ISBN-13: 9781850892496
May 1989
Publisher: Trafalgar Square Books
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Transaction Large Print Books
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Synopsis
Conrad's only spy novel, THE SECRET AGENT is set in the filthy and depraved city of London of the 1880s. Adolf Verloc, a bumbling police informer and the undercover agent for an unnamed European embassy, is recruited to bomb the Greenwich Observatory. Horrified and afraid, he fools his wife (who married him only so he would support her) into letting her half-witted brother, Stevie, help him; Stevie explodes the bomb prematurely and blows himself to bits. When she discovers the truth, Verloc's wife goes mad with rage and grief. This bleakly ironic tale of isolation, despair, and lack of love is perhaps Conrad's most powerful novel, and is a dark satire of English life, with amoral characters on both sides of the law.
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Publisher's Notes
First Line: "Mr Verloc, going out in the morning, left his shop nominally in charge of his brother-in-law. It could be done, because there was very little business at any time, and practically none at all before the evening. Mr Verloc cared but little about his ostensible business. And, moreover, his wife was in charge of his brother-in-law."
Industry Reviews
"A brilliant book...one of the greatest works of modern irony, a form of very justified address to the modern world."
Malcolm Bradbury
"[H]as the thrills of a John le Carre or one of Graham Greene's sinister entertainments, but Conrad did it first."
Washington Post Book World - Jennifer Howard (02/21/1999)
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