Cover of The Secret Agent

The Secret Agent

by Unknown Author

4.1
(26 ratings)
2 pages1996HarperCollinsISBN 9780001052345
ThrillerAdventureFictionClassicsMystery
Open in BookOwlDownload on App Store

About this book

The Secret Agent (1907) builds a triangle of conspiracy, which is destroyed, by the self-interset of its participants. Mr Verloc, employed by a foreign embassy to incriminate an anarchist group, instead destroys his family, his illusions, and his own life, in a terrorist act gone utterly wrong. Conrad's ironic and troubling novel exposes the futility of political extremism and the strength,and vanity of human illusion.

Publication Details

Publisher
HarperCollins
Published
1996
Pages
2
ISBN
9780001052345
Language
en

About Unknown Author

Joseph Conrad was a Polish-born British novelist, who became a British subject in 1886. He is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English though he did not speak the language fluently until he was in his twenties (and then always with a marked Polish accent). He wrote stories and novels, predominantly with a nautical or seaboard setting, that depict trials of the human spirit by the demands of duty and honor. ([Source][1].) [1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Conrad

More by Unknown Author

Cover of Victory

Victory

Unknown Author

5.0
Cover of Almayer's Folly (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)

Almayer's Folly (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)

Unknown Author

5.0
Cover of An Outcast of the Islands (Modern Classics)

An Outcast of the Islands (Modern Classics)

Unknown Author

4.3
Cover of An Outcast of the Islands (Twentieth Century Classics)

An Outcast of the Islands (Twentieth Century Classics)

Unknown Author

4.3
Cover of The Secret Agent (Vintage Classics)

The Secret Agent (Vintage Classics)

Unknown Author

4.1
Cover of Within the Tides (Twentieth-Century Classics)

Within the Tides (Twentieth-Century Classics)

Unknown Author

4.0

Track your reading journey with BookOwl

Open in BookOwlDownload on App Store