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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.
Adolf Verloc: a secret agent who owns a shop in Soho in London. His primary characteristic, as described by Conrad, is indolence. He has been employed by an unnamed embassy to spy on revolutionary groups, which then orders him to instigate a terrorist act against the Greenwich Observatory.
- Joseph Conrad
- 442
- 1907
- September 1907
May 10, 2019 · From the June 2019 issue. Why Conrad's The Secret Agent is the perfect novel for our time. Written after the Heart of Darkness, the novelist's secret agent thriller gains a new relevance today. By Will Self. May 10, 2019. Illustration © 2019 Ben Jones from The Folio Society edition of Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent.
The Secret Agent is a novel by British-Polish writer Joseph Conrad, first published in 1907. 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.
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During the time of the novel, the great latitude and freedom extended by the British government to these exiles was a perpetual source of irritation and concern for more repressive...
Verloc has a history of spying, and his current job is based on the pretense that Verloc is an anarchist—one of a number of revolutionary groups that reject hierarchy and sometimes even the state. However, Verloc has gotten soft: he looks too comfortable with his life to be a convincing anarchist.
3.59. 22,798 ratings1,762 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.
