Thursday, February 23, 2006 'An impenetrable mystery seems destined to hang for ever over this act of madness or despair.' Mr Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London's Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her infirm mother, and her idiot brother, Stevie. When Verloc is reluctantly involved in an anarchist plot to blow up the Greenwich Observatory things go disastrously wrong, and what appears to be 'A Simple Tale' proves to involve politicians, policemen, foreign diplomats and London's fashionable society in the darkest and most surprising interrelations. Joseph Conrad - The Secret Agent To download the Text files so you can keep them on your computer for later reading: PC: 'Right Click' on the link and select 'Save Link / Target As. . .' MAC: ALT-Click to launch the Download Manager Charlie hewitt.mobi Posted at 8:13 pm |
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