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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://mastodon.social/users/gutenberg_org/statuses/114007339010825114">Project Gutenberg (gutenberg_org@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 15-Feb-2025 19:48:55 JST</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gutenberg_org" title="gutenberg_org@mastodon.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/132842-48-20230813103534.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Project Gutenberg" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Project Gutenberg</a></section><article><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OTD" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1894.</p><p>French anarchist Martial Bourdin accidentally kills himself while attempting to plant a bomb at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, a fictionalised version of which appears in Joseph Conrad's novel The Secret Agent (1907). Bourdin's motives remain a mystery as does his intended target, which may have been the Greenwich Observatory.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martial_Bourdin" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martial_Bourdin</a></p><p>The Secret Agent  at PG:<br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/974" rel="nofollow">https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/974</a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/books" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/literature" rel="tag">#literature</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/4569836#notice-8946999">In conversation</a><time datetime="2025-02-15T19:48:55+09:00" title="Saturday, 15-Feb-2025 19:48:55 JST">about 2 months ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gutenberg_org/114007339010825114" rel="external" title="Sent from mastodon.social via ActivityPub">mastodon.social</a></span></span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gutenberg_org/114007339010825114">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/4142365">First US edition of The Secret Agent.The book cover has a striking Art Nouveau-style design with symbolic elements reflecting the novel's themes of espionage, political conspiracy, and anarchism.A long-haired figure at the top, possibly representing Fate or an anarchist figure, holds a pair of scissors cutting a string.The string leads downward to a compass-like object, forming a triangle that frames the book’s title.The triangle may symbolize secret societies, conspiracies, or anarchist cells.</a></label><br><a href="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/007/327/303/054/400/original/da23896be0f87ee5.jpg" rel="external">https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/007/327/303/054/400/original/da23896be0f87ee5.jpg</a></li><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: www.gutenberg.org</div><h5><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/974#books">The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad</a></h5><div></div></header><div>Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.</div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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#OTD in 1894.
French anarchist Martial Bourdin accidentally kills himself while attempting to plant a bomb at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, a fictionalised version of which appears in Joseph Conrad's novel The Secret Agent (1907). Bourdin's motives remain a mystery as does his intended target, which may have been the Greenwich Observatory.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martial_Bourdin
The Secret Agent at PG:
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  The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad
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