The Secret Agent

Resumen del libro

Adolph Verloc leads a double life. As well as running his seedy Soho shop, he is also a secret agent, operating for an underground anarchist cell and his job is about to get far more dangerous. When his leaders instruct him to plant a bomb at Greenwich Observatory, his plans go terribly awry, with tragic repercussions for him and his family.

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Biografía del autor

Nacido como Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski (Berdyczów, entonces Imperio ruso, actual Ucrania, 1857-Bishopsbourne, Inglaterra, 1924), fue un novelista polaco que adoptó el inglés como lengua literaria. Su obra explora la vulnerabilidad y la inestabilidad moral del ser humano cuando es sometido a una situación límite. Considerado como uno de los más grandes novelistas de la literatura inglesa, entre sus títulos destacan 'El corazón de las tienieblas' (1899), 'Lord Jim' (1900), 'El agente secreto' (1907) y 'Bajo la mirada de Occidente' (1911).