Conscience

The Secret Agent

by Joseph Conrad

Mr Verloc keeps a shabby shop in Soho, spies for a foreign embassy, and is ordered to blow up the Greenwich Observatory. Conrad drew on a real bombing of 1894 and told it in a voice of cold irony. It is the quietest and most devastating book on this shelf, and much of it is about the people nobody tells the secret to.

The librarian

Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain text

Reading time

About 6 hr 5 min

Where to find it

The secret bookcase in the west wing

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #974. In the public domain in the United States.