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  1. www.youtube.com › watchJoseph Conrad's "The Secret Agent" (1987) - YouTube

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    When an anarchist attempted to blow up the Greenwich Observatory, an idea exploded in the mind of Joseph Conrad. This program re-creates the world of The Sec...

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  2. www.youtube.com › watchThe Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad | Full Audiobook - YouTube

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    Oct 17, 2018 · The Secret Agent tells the story of Adolf and Winnie Verloc. He is a phony anarchist and agent provocateur of the title, and the plot centres around the terr...

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  4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › The_Secret_AgentThe Secret Agent - Wikipedia

    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 former tales of seafaring.

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    • September 1907

  5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › The_Secret_Agent_(1996_film)The Secret Agent (1996 film) - Wikipedia

    95 minutes. Country. United Kingdom. Language. English. Box office. $106,606. The Secret Agent is a 1996 British drama-thriller film written and directed by Christopher Hampton and starring Bob Hoskins and Patricia Arquette. It is adapted from Joseph Conrad 's 1907 novel of the same name.

    • 8 November 1996

  6. www.rottentomatoes.com › m › joseph_conrads_theJoseph Conrad's The Secret Agent | Rotten Tomatoes

    Movie Info. In 1880s London, pornographic bookseller Verloc (Bob Hoskins) is a double agent for the Russian government, providing information to Chief Inspector Heat (Jim Broadbent) about a lazy ...

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  7. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk › culture › 42604Why Conrad's The Secret Agent is the perfect novel for our time

    May 10, 2019 · At the time Conrad was one of a handful of writers capable of bridging the gap between paramount artistic ambition—repurposed for the machine age by Ezra Pound with his slogan, “Make it New!”—and the quotidian enjoyment of a rattling good yarn. To read Conrad—and this is true in particular of The Secret Agent (1907)—is to find ...

  8. www.theguardian.com › books › 2016The Secret Agent: a timely BBC adaptation of Joseph Conrad's ...

    Jul 16, 2016 · The BBC put the book on the screen twice in quick succession, in 1967 and 1975, straddling an era of international instability, marked by the rise of sectarian violence in Northern Ireland ...