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The Secret Agent

Joseph Conrad

The Secret Agent

Paper book: €33.99

Digital: €14.99

Original publication
1907
Bilingual edition
June 12, 2026
Pages
699
Difficulty
Hard
Genres
Crime and Thriller, Philosophy
Moods
Solve a mystery, Think it through
Translated from
English

Book summary

In London at the end of the nineteenth century, Adolf Verloc keeps a shady little shop in Soho, where he lives with his wife Winnie and Winnie's simple-minded young brother, Stevie. Secretly, he spies on anarchists for a foreign embassy. One day, his employer demands that he carry out a bomb attack on the Greenwich Observatory.

Inspired by a real failed bombing, it is one of the first great novels about terrorism, and still strikingly relevant.

With the translation always in front of you, you can read this dark, ironic novel in the language you are learning.

The plot

A London shopkeeper leads a double life. Mr Verloc keeps a small shop in London. He lives there with his wife Winnie and Stevie, Winnie’s young brother.

The world of the book

London, a refuge for exiles. At the end of the 19th century, England took in revolutionaries driven out of their countries and left them free. Other European countries wanted it to lock them up. Their embassies paid…

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