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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 is one of the first spy novels and is written in such a way as to require great attention on the part of the reader to make sense of the plot developments that occur (Simmons and Stape, viii). Conrad writes in an Author's Note to the work (written twelve years after the initial publication) that he was motivated to write the ...
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Release. 17 July. ( 2016-07-17) –. 31 July 2016. ( 2016-07-31) The Secret Agent is a three-part British espionage television drama serial based on the 1907 novel The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad. The show stars Toby Jones, Vicky McClure, Stephen Graham, David Dawson and Ian Hart. [1] The three-part series began airing on BBC One on 17 July 2016.
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). 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
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At first sight the narrative method of Conrad's next novel, The Secret Agent (1907), seems very similar to that of Nostromo.Not only is the narrative of both novels authorial in a sophisticated and wide-ranging sense (we might even say a characteristically ‘Conradian’ sense, as these particular texts are major examples of Conrad's authorial narrative method).
