The Secret Agent

The Secret Agent is Conrad's dark, and darkly comic story of a band of spies, anarchists, agents-provocateurs plotting and counter-plotting in the back streets of London in the early 20th Century. The novel centers on Verloc, a shop-owner, phony-anarchist and double-agent, who becomes embroiled in an ambitious terrorist plan to bomb the Greenwich Observatory. It also bleakly satirises early 20th Century anarchism and the operations of the police and intelligence forces, while being none too complimentary about the media and general public either. Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski) was a Polish author who wrote in English after settling in England. He was granted British nationality in 1886, but always considered himself a Pole. Conrad is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English, although he did not speak the language fluently until he was in his twenties (and always with a marked accent). He wrote stories and novels, often with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of an indifferent universe. He was a master prose stylist, who brought a distinctly non-English tragic sensibility into English literature.


  1. Au Coeur Des Ténèbres + L'Odyssée (Programme Prépas Scientifiques 2017-2018) [Bonus: Livre Audio Gratuit Inclus]

    Homère, Joseph Conrad

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  2. Heart of Darkness

    Joseph Conrad

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  3. Heart of Darkness - Audiobook

    Joseph Conrad, Classic Audiobooks

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  4. Heart of Darkness

    Joseph Conrad

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  5. Aventuras Marinas: Las Mejores Novelas para un Verano Inolvidable

    Jack London, Rafael Sabatini, Victor Hugo, Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry De Vere Stacpoole, Daniel Defoe, Julio Verne, Herman Melville, Joseph Conrad, Alexandre Dumas, Emilio Salgari, Walter Scott, Frederick Marryat, James Fenimore Cooper, R.M Ballantyne, Randall Parrish, James Norman Hall, H.G. Wells, Stefan Zweig, Jonathan Swift

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  6. Heart of Darkness

    Joseph Conrad

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  7. La Gran Aventura del Verano – 20 Aventuras de Piratas, Tesoros Ocultos y Islas Misteriosas

    Robert Louis Stevenson, Julio Verne, Herman Melville, Henry De Vere Stacpoole, Daniel Defoe, Joseph Conrad, Alexandre Dumas, Rafael Sabatini, Emilio Salgari, Frederick Marryat, Walter Scott, James Fenimore Cooper, R.M Ballantyne, Randall Parrish, James Norman Hall

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  8. Nostromo : Novela histórica de aventuras

    Joseph Conrad

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  9. Lord Jim : Novela histórica de aventuras

    Joseph Conrad

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  10. The Complete Collection : The Complete Novels & Stories Collection

    Joseph Conrad, Zenith Horizon Publishing

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  11. An Outcast of the Islands : Joseph Conrad's Tale of Betrayal, Colonialism, and Moral Fall

    Joseph Conrad, Zenith Horizon Publishing

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  12. Lord Jim : Joseph Conrad's Masterpiece of Honor, Shame, and Redemption

    Joseph Conrad, Zenith Horizon Publishing

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