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The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale
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Set in London, this novel follows Adolf Verloc, an agent provocateur whose spy work draws him into a bombing plot with tragic domestic consequences. It suits readers interested in political thrillers, early modernist fiction, or Conrad's work.
One correction: the metadata lists 1997, but *The Secret Agent* was first published in 1907.
Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British novelist and story writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language and – though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties – he became a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature.
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