Conrad, Joseph,  1857-1924 <br/><br/>
The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale 

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<br/><br/> Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_Agent  Release date is 1997-07-01 
<br/><br/>David Price  David Price 
<br/><br/> "The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale" by Joseph Conrad is a novel first published in installments in 1905–1906 and in book form in 1907. Set in 1886 London, it follows Adolf Verloc, a secret agent and shop owner who lives with his wife Winnie and her intellectually disabled brother Stevie. When Verloc is pressured to bomb Greenwich Observatory to provoke public outrage against anarchists, the operation goes catastrophically wrong. The story explores themes of espionage, terrorism, exploitation, and the devastating consequences of deception within a family. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>London (England) -- Fiction Political fiction Conspiracies -- Fiction Anarchists -- Fiction Bombings -- Fiction 
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