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Book · 1907 · Fiction

The Secret Agent

Joseph Conrad
Penguin Classics (Penguin Random House) · 320 pages
★ 6.9 editorial score

Conrad wrote the first great modern novel of terrorism. Verloc keeps a seedy London shop, informs on anarchists for a foreign embassy, and is ordered to bomb the Greenwich Observatory to frighten England.

Medium
Novel
Setting
London
Time
1907Depicts Victorian Era (Britain)Depicts 1880s

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