He then began to work aboard British ships, learning English from his shipmates. He joined the French Merchant Marine and briefly employed himself as a wartime gunrunner. Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski) was a Polish-born English novelist who today is most famous for Heart of Darkness, his fictionalized account of Colonial Africa.Ĭonrad left his native Poland in his middle teens to avoid conscription into the Russian Army. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices. This is one of Joseph Conrad’s finest novels, and a portrait of the devastating effects of extremism, as relevant today as when it was first published more than a century ago. His assignment has been to stir up trouble among the local anarchist groups, but when his handlers become frustrated with his lack of progress, they demand a new course of action: Verloc will bomb the Royal Observatory in Greenwich.Ī masterpiece of intricate plotting and dark realism, The Secret Agent skips backward and forward in time as the repercussions of its central event are felt by every character-from the radicals who think Verloc is one of their own to the wife and brother-in-law he traps in his whirlwind of destruction. But in reality he is a secret agent for a foreign government. To his friends and family Adolf Verloc is a typical London businessman. The classic tale of terrorism from one of the twentieth century’s greatest novelists
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