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  1. 2 days ago · 3. What is the name of the presumed secret agent of the novel? Answer: Verloc. If you ask me though, Verloc isn't a very 'secret' secret agent, and I think that time is the true secret agent as it is this that finally wins out. 4.

  2. May 4, 2024 · Signature. Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, Polish: [ˈjuzɛf tɛˈɔdɔr ˈkɔnrat kɔʐɛˈɲɔfskʲi] ⓘ; 3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Polish-British novelist and story writer.

  3. Apr 15, 2024 · At the end of Joseph Conrad's nearly 300 page novel, the markedly unglamourous and unromantic tale of a mediocre, shabby secret agent in London and his mission that goes brutally, devastatingly awry, I feel exhilarated, for sure, but also a tad exhausted.

  4. Apr 19, 2024 · Synopsis. ‘Spookily topical’ Guardian Read the world’s first political thriller.London is under threat. It has become a haven for political exiles and anarchists. Frequent bomb threats and disturbances interrupt the lives of the city's inhabitants, who live in fear of the terrorists in their midst. One such terrorist is Verloc.

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  6. The Secret Agent warns us that there is a bigger threat than G-Man, literally. My Theory is that the agent wants G-Man alive, probably if this is the case and pulls another Scientist (Gets information, and is killed by the Alliance afterwards).

  7. 6 days ago · Unrehearsed, live reading of the book in one take. This is a Twitch stream VOD in which the original book is read out, I chat with live viewers about the boo...

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  8. Apr 19, 2024 · Give me that for a lever, and I'll move the world'In the only novel Conrad set in London, The Secret Agent communicates a profoundly ironic view of human affairs. The story is woven around an attack on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894 masterminded by Verloc, a Russian spy working for the police, and ostensibly a member of an anarchist group in ...