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The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale is a novel by Joseph Conrad, first 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).
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The Secret Agent. Joseph Conrad, John Lyon (Editor) 3.59. 22,888 ratings1,771 reviews. 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.
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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.
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The Secret Agent Summary. Next. Chapter 1. Literary devices: Genre. Mood. Setting. Style. Tone. View all. 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.
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.
