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The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale

by Joseph Conrad

Penguin Classics. 2007. 320p. ISBN 9780141441580. pap. $12.

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Conrad's unsettling masterpiece—often cited for its prescience—still resonates. A London shopkeeper doubling as a Russian spy is persuaded to bomb the Greenwich Observatory for political ends.

Reviewed by Michael Pucci , Oct 01, 2015

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