The Secret Agent is a novel by British-Polish writer Joseph Conrad, first published in Set in London in , it charts the adventures of the secret agent Adolf Verloc and the work he does on behalf of a powerful but unnamed country, more than likely Russia. The book is an espionage tale, a family drama, and a comic satire that pits. The Secret Agent Summary. 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. She married Verloc seven years ago because he had the money and. · The Secret Agent was written by Joseph Conrad, takes places in London in , and tells the story of Adolf Verloc, a businessman and secret agent. Verloc is part of a .
Why Conrad's The Secret Agent is the perfect novel for our time. Written after the Heart of Darkness, the novelist's secret agent thriller gains a new relevance today. There is a passage in Siegfried Sassoon's wartime diaries in which he recounts the experience of sheltering in a dugout on the Western Front during a savage German. Joseph Conrad's dark satire on English society 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 masterminded by Verloc, a Russian spy working for the police, and ostensibly a member of an anarchist group in Soho. Joseph Conrad published The Secret Agent in and the work is often taken to be the major work in a trilogy of political works that Conrad published around this time (the other two are Nostromo and Under Western Eyes).The book is also taken to be Conrad's greatest metropolitan novel and makes use both of Continental and English writing styles. The Secret Agent is one of the first spy novels.
The Secret Agent, by Joseph Conrad, is part of the Barnes Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars. SECRET AGENT a simple tale. by JOSEPH CONRAD. second edition. methuen co., 36 essex street w c. london. First Published September Second Edition October TO H. G. WELLS. the chronicler of mr lewisham’s love the biographer of kipps and the historian of the ages to come. this simple tale of the xix century is affectionately offered. CHAPTER I. The Secret Agent is a novel by British-Polish writer Joseph Conrad, first published in Set in London in , it charts the adventures of the secret agent Adolf Verloc and the work he does on behalf of a powerful but unnamed country, more than likely Russia. The book is an espionage tale, a family drama, and a comic satire that pits hilariously inept anarchists against overzealous policemen.
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