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100 1 _aConrad, Joseph,
_d1857-1924
245 1 4 _aThe Secret Agent: A Simple Tale
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c1997
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_Agent
500 _aRelease date is 1997-07-01
508 _aDavid Price
520 _a"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.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aLondon (England) -- Fiction
653 _aPolitical fiction
653 _aConspiracies -- Fiction
653 _aAnarchists -- Fiction
653 _aBombings -- Fiction
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/974
999 _c43093
_d43093