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The Secret Agent. For other uses, see Secret Agent (disambiguation). 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).
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A plot summary of the novel The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad, a classic of modernist literature. The story follows a shopkeeper who becomes an undercover agent for a foreign embassy and is involved in a terrorist bombing that kills his mentally disabled stepson.
Joseph Conrad, John Lyon (Editor) 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. When Verloc is reluctantly involved in an anarchist plot to blow up the Greenwich Observatory things go disastrously wrong, and ...
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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.
Sep 25, 2007 · The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (Penguin Classics) Paperback – September 25, 2007. by Joseph Conrad (Author), Michael Newton (Editor, Introduction), J. H. Stape (Editor) 4.1 286 ratings. See all formats and editions. Joseph Conrad's dark satire on English society.
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The Secret Agent, novel by Joseph Conrad, first published serially in the New York weekly Ridgeway’s in 1906–07 and in book form in 1907. This absurdist story is noted for its adept characterizations, melodramatic irony, and psychological intrigue. Adolf Verloc is a languid eastern European secret.
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Jun 28, 1997 · A classic novel of espionage and terrorism in late Victorian London, written by the Polish-born British author Joseph Conrad. Read the full text online or download the ebook for free.
