Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. Though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he was a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature.
The Secret Agent is a highly entertaining, gripping and exciting novel in the genre of spy fiction and is set in 19th century London. The main character is, presumably, a Russian spy who's collecting and sending info to his government while living in...
