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London symbolizes the inhospitality and profound alienation that Conrad implies is characteristic of modern life. Its drab physical environment mirrors the loneliness, malaise, and sometimes overt hostility that people experience in industrialized society. In the novel, London is most often described as dark, muddy, rain-soaked, and bleak; it ...
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. Though The Secret Agent is a work of fiction ...
The Secret Agent was Joseph Conrad’s delayed response to the real-life 1894 Greenwich Mystery — the accidental death of 26-year-old Martial Bourdin, who was fatally injured while carrying a bomb across Greenwich Park. Conrad had in fact forgotten all about this once notorious incident, until his friend, the author Ford Madox Ford, brought ...
The Secret Agent at Wikisource. 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 ...
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The Secret Agent, considered by scholar F. R. Leavis to be one of Joseph Conrad's two "supreme masterpieces," is a brilliantly ironic narrative depicting Edwardian London's seedy and dispossessed ...
Conrad’s novel includes vivid descriptions of London in the late 19th century and his characters often walk through different areas of the city. This video presents photographs of the period that recreate the feel of the city and describes artistic and literary movements that developed during the time of the novel’s action.
Mar 14, 2019 · London’s Soho is integral to The Secret Agent ’s physical and figurative landscape. At the end of the 19th century, Soho was synonymous with corruption and misdeeds. In the novel, it provides a murky backdrop to Verloc’s unscrupulous and questionable moral decisions, with its “sullen, brooding and sinister” streets.
