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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.
Mr Verloc, the secret agent, is reluctantly involved in an anarchist plot to blow up the Greenwich Observatory. Things go disastrously wrong, and what appears to be "a simple tale" proves to involve politicians, policemen, foreign diplomats and London's fashionable society in the darkest and most surprising interrelations. The novel, one of the ...
The Secret Agent was a favorite book of Ted Kaczynski, the American anarchist and terrorist known as the Unabomber. Kaczynski identified strongly with the character of The Professor, and he sometimes used variations on the name “Conrad” as aliases. Tragic Associations. Terrorism is a major theme in The Secret Agent, and a Slate article in ...
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CHAPTERI Mr Verloc, going out in the morning, left his shop nominally in charge of his brother–in–law. It couldbedone,becausetherewasverylittlebusinessatanytime ...
The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad. Scanned and proofed by David Price. ccx074@coventry.ac.uk. The Secret Agent. CHAPTER I. Mr Verloc, going out in the morning, left his shop nominally in charge of his brother-in-law. It could be done, because there was very little business at any time, and practically none at all before the evening.
