The Secret Agent Av Joseph Conrad

<p><b>The Penguin English Library Edition of <i>The Secret Agent </i>by Joseph Conrad<br></b><br><b>''Madness and despair! Give me that for a lever, and I''ll move the world''</b><br><br>In the only novel Conrad set in London, <i>The Secret Agent</i> 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.<br><br>The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction written in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels, to the beginning of the First World War.</p>