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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`They swarmed numerous like locusts, industrious like ants, thoughtless like a natural force, pushing on blind and orderly and absorbed, impervious to sentiment, to logic - to terror, too, perhaps.''Considered one of Conrad''s most political works, The Secret Agent is set against the dismal backdrop of a drab and alienating London, and tells the story of the bombing of Greenwich Observatory by a group of anarchists...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.`The girl he had come across ... that human being so near and still so strange, gave him a greater sense of his own reality than he had ever known in all his life.\\''Damaged by his father\\''s nihilistic philosophy, Axel Heyst has withdrawn from the world to live in near-isolation on the island of Samburan. His solitude ends when he rescues an English girl from her preying patron, but their heady existence ...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`Who could tell what forms, what visions, what faces, what forgiveness he could see in the glow of the west!\\''Jim is a well-bred young romantic who takes to the seas with hopes of adventure and the aspiration to prove his mettle. When the boat he sails in threatens to sink, Jim abandons ship in fear in order to save himself, leaving the other passengers to their fate. However, the ship does not sink and guilt-rid...