The Secret AgentCollector's Library, 2005 - 335 من الصفحات An impenetrable mystery seems destined to hang for ever over this act of madness or despair. 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. This new edition includes a critical introduction which describes Conrad's great London novel as the realization of a monstrous town, a place of idiocy, madness, criminality and butchery. |
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The Authors Note | 7 |
Chapter One | 17 |
Chapter Two | 25 |
Chapter Three | 55 |
Chapter Four | 75 |
Chapter Five | 94 |
Chapter Six | 118 |
Chapter Seven | 148 |
Chapter Eight | 165 |
Chapter Nine | 195 |
Chapter Ten | 226 |
Chapter Twelve | 278 |
Chapter Thirteen | 314 |
Afterword | 325 |
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