{"product_id":"9780141199559","title":"The Secret Agent","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Joseph Conrad\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eClassic fiction (pre c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 26 July 2012 by Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics) in the United Kingdom as part of 'The Penguin English Library' series.\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003ch4\u003ePaperback | 288 pages\u003cbr\u003e195 x 130 x 14mm | 206g\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Penguin English Library Edition of The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad'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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Joseph Conrad","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56495273607493,"sku":"9780141199559","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0994\/3721\/6069\/files\/9780141199559.jpg?v=1764260936","url":"https:\/\/stripyduckbookshopcafe.co.uk\/products\/9780141199559","provider":"The Stripy Duck Bookshop Café","version":"1.0","type":"link"}