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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).
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 ...
Chapter 1. Literary devices: Genre. 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.
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.
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.
Jun 28, 1997 · This was then the famous and trusty secret agent, so secret that he was never designated otherwise but by the symbol [delta] in the late Baron Stott-Wartenheim’s official, semi-official, and confidential correspondence; the celebrated agent [delta], whose warnings had the power to change the schemes and the dates of royal, imperial, grand ...
Mar 31, 2004 · "The Secret Agent" is Joseph Conrad's classic novel of espionage and terrorism. It is the story of Mr. Verloc, a spy who is reluctantly pressured by his superiors into an anarchist plot to blow up the Greenwich Observatory. This unspeakable act of terror sets the stage for a gripping political thriller. ISBN-13. 978-1420928877.
