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Title: The Secret Agent
A Simple Tale

Author: Joseph Conrad

Release Date: February 22, 2006 [eBook #974]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

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Transcribed from the 1907 Methuen & Co edition by David Price, email
ccx074@coventry.ac.uk


THE SECRET AGENT
A SIMPLE TALE

First Published . . . September 1907
Second Edition . . . October 1907
TO
H. G. WELLS
THE CHRONICLER OF MR LEWISHAM'S LOVE
THE BIOGRAPHER OF KIPPS AND THE
HISTORIAN OF THE AGES TO COME
THIS SIMPLE TALE OF THE XIX CENTURY
IS AFFECTIONATELY OFFERED


CHAPTER I

Mr Verloc, going out in the morning, left his shop nominally in charge of
his brother-in-law. It could be done, because there was very little
business at any time, and practically none at all before the evening. Mr
Verloc cared but little about his ostensible business. And, moreover,
his wife was in charge of his brother-in-law.
The shop was small, and so was the house. It was one of those grimy
brick houses which existed in large quantities before the era of
reconstruction dawned upon London.
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