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The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale is a novel by Joseph Conrad, first published in 1907. [1] The story is set in London in 1886 and deals with Mr. Adolf Verloc and his work as a spy for an unnamed country (presumably Russia). The Secret Agent is one of Conrad's later political novels in which he moved away from his former tales of seafaring.
- Joseph Conrad
- 1907
The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale is a novel by Joseph Conrad, published in 1907. The story is set in London in 1886 and deals with Mr Adolf Verloc and his work as a spy for an unnamed country (presumably Russia). The Secret Agent is one of Conrad's later political novels in which he moved away from his former tales of seafaring.
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The Secret Agent Summary. Mr. Adolf Verloc, a shopkeeper in his forties, heads out into the London streets one morning, leaving his business in the hands of his wife, Winnie, and Winnie’s brother Stevie. Winnie looks after Stevie, who is mentally disabled, as if he’s her son. She married Verloc seven years ago because he had the money and ...
The Secret Agent, novel by Joseph Conrad, first published serially in the New York weekly Ridgeway’s in 1906–07 and in book form in 1907. This absurdist story is noted for its adept characterizations, melodramatic irony, and psychological intrigue. Adolf Verloc is a languid eastern European secret
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The Secret Agent is a novel by Joseph Conrad. It was published in 1907. The novel describes events in the life of a man named Verloc, a secret government agent for an unnamed country living in London in 1886, who is ordered to carry out a bombing with the goal of manipulating the British government. Though The Secret Agent is a work of fiction ...
Jun 28, 1997 · SECRET AGENT a simple tale. by JOSEPH CONRAD. second edition. methuen & co., 36 essex street w c. london. First Published. . . September 1907. Second Edition. . . October 1907. TO H. G. WELLS. the chronicler of mr lewisham’s love the biographer of kipps and the historian of the ages to come. this simple tale of the xix century is ...
The Secret Agent is an early predecessor of the spy thriller genre that boomed in popularity throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. Other early espionage novels include Rudyard Kipling’s Kim (1901) and Conrad’s own Under Western Eyes (1911). Ian Fleming’s James Bond series, about a British Secret Intelligence officer, are perhaps the ...
