Length10h 10m
About this audiobook
In the grimy, fog-bound streets of Edwardian London, Joseph Conrad unveils a world of absurd and chilling intrigue. Mr. Verloc, the seemingly placid proprietor of a dubious shop, is a secret agent, but not for the government he pretends to serve. He is in the pay of a foreign embassy, tasked with provoking a brutal crackdown on political exiles by orchestrating a shocking act of anarchist terror.
His target? The sacred symbol of science and order: the Greenwich Observatory. But when Verloc’s grotesquely botched plan ensnares his simple-minded brother-in-law, Stevie, the agent’s carefully constructed double life unravels with catastrophic force. Drawn into the chaotic aftermath are his desperately unhappy wife, Winnie; his sinister diplomatic handler, Mr. Vladimir; and a gallery of brilliantly drawn characters from the anarchist underworld and police force, each motivated by cynicism, vanity, or naive idealism.
Based on a real attempted bombing, The Secret Agent is a tour de force of literary modernism and a devastatingly dark comedy. Conrad strips away the romanticism of espionage and revolution, exposing a sordid landscape of bureaucratic manipulation, human frailty, and the profound, often tragic, disconnect between political abstractions and the brutal realities they inflict on ordinary lives.
Audiobook details
GenreMystery and Thriller, Literary Classics, General Fiction
Length10 hrs 10 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1By the same author in Cactus catalogue:
8CHAPTER VII
2CHAPTER I
9CHAPTER VIII
3CHAPTER II
10CHAPTER IX
4CHAPTER III
11CHAPTER X
5CHAPTER IV
12CHAPTER XI
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6CHAPTER V
13CHAPTER XII
7CHAPTER VI
14CHAPTER XIII
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