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.
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Rating★★★★ 3.6 (35.5K)
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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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