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- Full Title: The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale When Written: 1906 Where Written: France and London When Published: 1907 Literary Period: Modernism Genre: Spy Thriller Setting: London, England
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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.
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Set against the grimy backdrop of 1880s London, The Secret Agent immerses readers into a labyrinthine world of shadowy shops and murky streets, all shrouded in a soupy, suffocating mist. Conrad doesn’t merely employ this setting for its atmospheric effect.
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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.
Set in London in 1886, it charts the adventures of the secret agent Adolf Verloc and the work he does on behalf of a powerful but unnamed country, more than likely Russia. The book is an espionage tale, a family drama, and a comic satire that pits hilariously inept anarchists against overzealous policemen. Welcome to the world of Joseph Conrad.
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