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The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale is a novel by Joseph Conrad, first published in 1907. 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.
- Joseph Conrad
- 1907
The Secret Agent: With Toby Jones, Vicky McClure, Charlie Hamblett, Marie Critchley. Verloc, the owner of a seedy shop in Victorian Soho, plays a dangerous game spying on an agitating anarchist group that will prove useful to the foreign power he is secretly working for.
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The Secret Agent is a three-part British espionage television drama serial based on the 1907 novel The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad. The show stars Toby Jones, Vicky McClure, Stephen Graham, David Dawson and Ian Hart. The three-part series began airing on BBC One on 17 July 2016.
The Secret Agent. Joseph Conrad, John Lyon (Editor) 3.59. 22,888 ratings1,771 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.
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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.
A plot summary of the novel The Secret Agent, which depicts the lives of a group of anarchists and a spy in London. The story follows the events leading up to a bombing in Greenwich Park, which kills the spy's mentally disabled stepson and leads to his wife's murder.
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.
