The secret agent
Subtitle: a simple tale
By: Joseph Conrad ; edited with an introduction and notes by Martin Seymour-Smith.
Contributors: Seymour-Smith, Martin.
Series: The Penguin English library
Publisher: Penguin Books; Viking Penguin
Published: 1985
Place of publication: Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England; New York, N.Y., USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
Subjects: Conspiracies -- Fiction; Anarchists -- Fiction; Bombings -- Fiction; London (England) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: A group of revolutionaries in the backstreets of 19th-century London plot the destruction of the Greenwich Observatory in this 1907 masterpiece of suspense. Rich in atmosphere and psychological realism, the tale centers on a shopkeeper whose double life encompasses a quiet family circle, active friendships with anarchists, and allegiance to a foreign government.