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The Secret Agent

Audiobook

Inspired by an actual attempt in 1894 to blow up the Greenwich Observatory, Conrad created one of his most tense and chilling plots. The world of The Secret Agent—a world of fatuous civil servants and corrupt policemen—is grotesquely mirrored in its underworld, a squalid terrorist landscape inhabited by, among others, the Professor, who always carries a bomb in his pocket and Verloc, the pornographer, deceiver, and spy. Repulsive characters and amoral caricatures collaborate to form a black satire on English society, sharpened into focus with a portrait of "family life." Winnie Verloc's story is relentlessly told to its anarchic end of utter desolation, madness, and despair.


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Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc. Edition: Unabridged

OverDrive Listen audiobook

  • ISBN: 9780792771128
  • File size: 273184 KB
  • Release date: December 7, 2010
  • Duration: 09:29:07

MP3 audiobook

  • ISBN: 9780792771128
  • File size: 273685 KB
  • Release date: December 7, 2010
  • Duration: 09:29:07
  • Number of parts: 8

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English

Inspired by an actual attempt in 1894 to blow up the Greenwich Observatory, Conrad created one of his most tense and chilling plots. The world of The Secret Agent—a world of fatuous civil servants and corrupt policemen—is grotesquely mirrored in its underworld, a squalid terrorist landscape inhabited by, among others, the Professor, who always carries a bomb in his pocket and Verloc, the pornographer, deceiver, and spy. Repulsive characters and amoral caricatures collaborate to form a black satire on English society, sharpened into focus with a portrait of "family life." Winnie Verloc's story is relentlessly told to its anarchic end of utter desolation, madness, and despair.


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