книга "The secret agent" — Joseph ConradThe secret agent. Карл Верлок выдает себя за обычного торговца, владеющего лавкой канцелярских товаров на окраине Лондона. На самом же деле он является шпионом и профессиональным анархистом, получившим задание организовать серию взрывов.
Madness and despair! Give me that for a lever, and I'll move the world'. 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. The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction written in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels, to the beginning of the First World War. | 
