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Click on file format for free download of each book. The novel centers on verloc, a shopowner, phonyanarchist and doubleagent, who becomes embroiled in an ambitious terrorist plan to bomb the greenwich observatory. The story is set in london in 1886 and deals with mr adolf verloc and his work as a spy for an unnamed country presumably russia. Agathocleouss concise introduction to the secret agent situates the novel in terms of its publication history, its relation to conrads interests and oeuvre, its critique of victorian mores and genres, contemporary concerns about anarchism and violence, its connection to literary naturalism and the themes of degeneration and heat death. It uses joseph conrads the secret agent, a story of policing and anarchism in late nineteenth.
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