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This is the only novel that Conrad set in London, and it communicates a profoundly ironic view of human affairs. The story is woven around an attack on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894. Verloc, (a Russian spy who is also working for the police) is ostensibly a member of an anarchist group in Soho.

The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale

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    A Hardback by Joseph Conrad

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      Publisher Everyman
      Published 26 November 1992
      ISBN-13 9781857151237
      978-1857151237
      ISBN-10 1857151232
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      Book Synopsis
      This is the only novel that Conrad set in London, and it communicates a profoundly ironic view of human affairs. The story is woven around an attack on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894. Verloc, (a Russian spy who is also working for the police) is ostensibly a member of an anarchist group in Soho.

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