The Secret Agent is arguably one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. Its brilliant depiction of a terrorist underworld, its ruthless irony and it...
the miscreant suddenly turned away his face, and seemed to strike his mouth with his open hand. At the same instant, the room filled with a new and powerful o...
A young and successful merchant sailor returns to Marseille to marry his fiancée. Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, he learns of a great hoar...