The Secret Agent Introduction

by Joseph Conrad

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, Verlac must deal with the repercussions of his actions.

The Secret Agent CHAPTER I

The Secret Agent CHAPTER II

The Secret Agent CHAPTER III

The Secret Agent CHAPTER IV

The Secret Agent CHAPTER V

The Secret Agent CHAPTER VI

The Secret Agent CHAPTER VII

The Secret Agent CHAPTER VIII