The Secret Agent

Joseph Conrad

⏱ 8 minModernist classic

A shabby London spy is pushed to bomb the Greenwich Observatory, and uses his wife's simple-minded brother to carry it — with terrible consequences. Conrad's bleak, ironic masterpiece of anarchists and betrayal.

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