The Secret Agent
Subtitle: A Simple Tale
By: Joseph Conrad ; edited with an introduction and notes by John Lyon.
Contributors: Lyon, John, 1956-
Edition: New ed.
Series: Oxford world's classics
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
Subjects: Conspiracies -- Fiction; Anarchists -- Fiction; Bombings -- Fiction; London (England) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. xliii-xlvi).