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The Secret Agent

by Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)

The Secret Agent is Conrad’s dark, and darkly comic story of a band of spies, anarchists, agents-provocateurs plotting and counter-plotting in the back streets of London in the early 20th Century. The novel centers on Verloc, a shop-owner, phony-anarchist and double-agent, who becomes embroiled in an ambitious terrorist plan to bomb the Greenwich Observatory.

The Secret Agent was the first recording done for LibriVox.

(Summary by Hugh McGuire)

• Gutenberg e-text #974
• Wikipedia - Joseph Conrad
• Wikipedia - The Secret Agent
• Librivox’s Secret Agent Internet Archive page
• Zip file of the entire book (284.8MB)
• RSS feed · Subscribe in iTunes · Chapter-a-day
• Bit Torrent of the entire book

mp3 and ogg files:

• Chapter 1 - 00:17:01
  [mp3@64kbps - 8.2MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 16.3MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 16.5MB]
  Read by: Hugh McGuire
• Chapter 2 - 00:58:07
  [mp3@64kbps - 27.9MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 55.8MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 52.1MB]
  Read by: Neal Foley, The Podchef
• Chapter 3 - 00:33:58
  [mp3@64kbps - 16.3MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 32.6MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 20.3MB]
  Read by: fling93
• Chapter 4 - 00:38:12
  [mp3@64kbps - 18.3MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 36.7MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 23.6MB]
  Read by: Hugh McGuire
• Chapter 5 - 00:50:02
  [mp3@64kbps - 24.0MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 48.0MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 30.6MB]
  Read by: Branko Collin
• Chapter 6 - 00:56:24
  [mp3@64kbps - 27.1MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 54.2MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 23.6MB]
  Read by: Greg
• Chapter 7 - 00:30:52
  [mp3@64kbps - 14.8MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 29.6MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 27.5MB]
  Read by: Lloyd Davis
• Chapter 8 - 01:03:45
  [mp3@64kbps - 30.6MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 61.2MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 56.3MB]
  Read by: Mitchell Dwyer
• Chapter 9 - 00:57:53
  [mp3@64kbps - 27.8MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 55.6MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 56.5MB]
  Read by: Michèle Pacey
• Chapter 10 - 00:27:49
  [mp3@64kbps - 13.3MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 26.7MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 27.7MB]
  Read by: Gina
• Chapter 11 - 01:12:50
  [mp3@64kbps - 35.0MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 69.9MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 76.5MB]
  Read by: Mark Bradford
• Chapter 12 - 01:05:26
  [mp3@64kbps - 31.4MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 62.8MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 33.7MB]
  Read by: Derek Elliot
• Chapter 13 - 00:20:52
  [mp3@64kbps - 10.0MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 20.0MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 16.1MB]
  Read by: Paula Berinstein, from The Writing Show