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Plot summary. Set in London in 1886, the novel follows the life of Adolf Verloc, a secret agent. Verloc is also a businessman who owns a shop which sells pornographic material, contraceptives and bric-a-brac. He lives with his wife Winnie, his mother-in-law, and his brother-in-law, Stevie.
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. Winnie looks after Stevie, who is mentally disabled, as if he’s her son.
The Secret Agent. Joseph Conrad, John Lyon (Editor) 3.59. 22,953 ratings1,781 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.
TV Mini Series. 2016. 1h. IMDb RATING. 6.0 /10. 1.1K. YOUR RATING. Rate. Play trailer 0:41. 3 Videos. 12 Photos. Drama Thriller. Verloc, the owner of a seedy shop in Victorian Soho, plays a dangerous game spying on an agitating anarchist group that will prove useful to the foreign power he is secretly working for. Stars. Toby Jones. Vicky McClure.
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 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.
Jun 28, 1997 · This was then the famous and trusty secret agent, so secret that he was never designated otherwise but by the symbol [delta] in the late Baron Stott-Wartenheim’s official, semi-official, and confidential correspondence; the celebrated agent [delta], whose warnings had the power to change the schemes and the dates of royal, imperial, grand ...
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