The Secret Agent is Joseph Conrad's dark satire on English society,
edited with an introduction and notes by Michael Newton in Penguin
Classics. In the only novel Conrad set in London, The Secret Agent
communicates a profoundly ironic view of human affairs. The story
is woven around an attack on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894
masterminded by Verloc, a Russian spy working for the police, and
ostensibly a member of an anarchist group in Soho. His masters
instruct him to discredit the anarchists in a humiliating fashion,
and when his evil plan goes horribly awry, Verloc must deal with
the repercussions of his actions. While rooted in the Edwardian
period, Conrad's tale remains strikingly contemporary, with its
depiction of Londoners gripped by fear of the terrorists living in
their midst. This edition of The Secret Agent contains a
chronology, further reading, notes and maps of London and
Greenwich. In his introduction, Michael Newton discusses London's
real-life world of political anarchy, and Conrad's portrayal of the
Verlocs' marriage. Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) was born in the
Ukraine and grew up under Tsarist autocracy. After spending years
in the French, and later the British Merchant Navy, Conrad left the
sea to devote himself to writing. In 1896 he settled in Kent, where
he produced within fifteen years such modern classics as Youth,
Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, Typhoon, Nostromo, The Secret Agent
and Under Western Eyes. If you enjoyed The Secret Agent, you might
like Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Demons, also available in Penguin
Classics. 'A brilliant book, one of the greatest works of modern
irony' Malcolm Bradbury
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