The Secret Agent

This is the only novel that Conrad set in London, and it communicates a profoundly ironic view of human affairs. The story is woven around an attack on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894. Verloc, (a Russian spy who is also working for the police) is ostensibly a member of an anarchist group in Soho.

Acesta este singurul roman in care Conrad are actiunea plasata la Londra si transmite o viziune profund ironica asupra afacerilor umane. Povestea este tesuta in jurul unui atac asupra Observatorului Greenwich din 1894.