The Secret Agent, Joseph Conrad
The Secret Agent, Joseph Conrad
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The Secret Agent
Penguin Classics

Author: Joseph Conrad

Narrator: Luke Norris

Unabridged: 10 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/26/2019

Categories: Fiction, Classic


Synopsis

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This Penguin Classic is performed by Luke Norris, known for his role in BBC drama Poldark. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Michael Newton.

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.

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Reviews

Goodreads review by Vit on September 23, 2025

The Secret Agent is a dark satire of clandestine activities… Adolf Verloc is a secret agent… He is a mediocre agent… “You give yourself for an agent provocateur The proper business of an agent provocateur is to provoke. As far as I can judge from your record kept here, you have done nothing to earn yo......more

Goodreads review by Georgia on October 20, 2024

Stevie used to be the boy with a boat who took me to the bay. While he rowed, I baled water with a tin can. At twelve, it was the height of romance. Now, a new Stevie has my heart. He is older in years yet acts even younger. He's quiet, too. But this Stevie doesn't live in a small town with lawns an......more

Goodreads review by Fiona on February 19, 2017

I can appreciate this novel is pretty wonderful. And as I read more and more I was fascinated, but I did find it hard going at the start. I think the plot is horrific, and it made me want to research the Greenwich Bomb in more detail. I think it was a pretty daring book for Conrad to release at such......more

Goodreads review by Valeriu on April 28, 2023

Văd în acest roman o palidă replică englezească a Demonilor lui Dostoievski. Dar, cu excepția Profesorului (fixat în ura lui nihilistă fără leac), anarhiștii prezentați de Joseph Conrad sînt niște indivizi mediocri. Spionii nu fac nici două parale. Aparțin mai degrabă genului comic: sînt niște carica......more