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Secret Agent A Simple Tale (Heritage of Literature)

Joseph Conrad

Mr Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London's Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her infirm mother, and her idiot brother, Stevie. When Verloc is reluctantly involved in an anarchist plot to blow up the Greenwich Observatory things go disastrously wrong, and what appears to be "a simp...

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The book was mentioned in analogy to AOC hosting radicals while being part of the establishment.

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She's in Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent, this exact scene where she hosts, there's a woman, a rich woman who hosts all the radicals in town who are actually blowing people up and killing children an...

— Episode: Daily Wire Backstage: WE DO NOT COMPLY

Episode: Daily Wire Backstage: WE DO NOT COMPLY

The book was mentioned in analogy to AOC hosting radicals while being part of the establishment.

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She's in Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent, this exact scene where she hosts, there's a woman, a rich woman who hosts all the radicals in town who are actually blowing people up and killing children and all this stuff. But she's hosting them and they keep saying to her, you know, you're next. And she goes, yes, I know. It's wonderful.

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