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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 ...
The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale. 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 agent ...
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 ...
Summary. The revolutionaries gather at Mr. Verloc 's home. Michaelis is a morbidly obese man who had been imprisoned for 15 years but is now fortunate to be under the care of a wealthy upper-class woman who is sympathetic to the popular revolutionary movement. Karl Yundt is a frail old man who calls himself a terrorist despite never following ...
The Secret Agent is one of the first spy novels and is written in such a way as to require great attention on the part of the reader to make sense of the plot developments that occur (Simmons and Stape, viii). Conrad writes in an Author's Note to the work (written twelve years after the initial publication) that he was motivated to write the ...
Stevie Character Analysis. Next. Mr. Vladimir. Stevie is Winnie ’s younger brother. He lives with the Verlocs, and Winnie watches over him like a mother. Stevie has an unnamed mental disability and cannot live independently, though he can read and write and has held jobs occasionally. He is highly emotionally sensitive, especially when he ...
Analysis. Ossipon is sitting at a table in a dark, vaulted hall with chandeliers and medieval paintings. Near the door, a mechanical piano plays a noisy waltz. Across from Ossipon, a small man with spectacles, who’s known as The Professor, drinks beer. Despite his unimpressive demeanor, the man has an air of calm self-assurance that Ossipon ...
