Joseph Conrad's THE SECRET AGENT comes to eBook!
We now have an eBook edition of Joseph Conrad’s classic The Secret Agent! The book is featured as part of our line of newly-restored eBook editions of classic titles, professionally proofread and formatted to ensure readability on any 
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Adolf Verloc is a business owner, an anarchist, and an agent provocateur employed by a foreign government. One day, this foreign government grows tired of what they see as a lack of progress, and demand that he bomb the Royal Observatory in Greenwich. He follows through.
The novel skips backwards and forwards in the time surrounding this bombing, studying the repercussions in the characters close to Verloc. It is at once a brilliant work of espionage and an acute article of social commentary. As a portrait of the devastating effects of extremism, it is as relevant today as it was when first published over a century ago.
The novel has been subjected to a number of adaptations. Conrad himself wrote a three-act drama based on the text, which has seen several successful stagings. Three different operas have made use of the story. During the twentieth century, several film adaptations were produced: Alfred Hitchcock based his 1936 Sabotage on the novel, a three-part miniseries was produced for the BBC in 1992, and a second, more faithful film adaptation followed in 1996.
Joseph Conrad was born in 1857 to Polish parents in what is now Ukraine. Orphaned at the age of eleven, he spent much of his life sailing the world on a merchant ship. In his third language, English, he wrote several of the most enduring novels of the twentieth century, including Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness, and The Secret Agent.
External Links
The trailer for 1996's The Secret Agent
The BBC's The Secret Agent (1992)
