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An edition of The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (1907)

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A Simple Tale

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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 what appears to be a simple tale proves to involve politicians, policemen, foreign diplomats, and London's fashionable society in the darkest and most surprising interrelations.

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English
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245

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Anarchists, fiction Conspiracies, fiction Bombings, fiction Terrorism, fiction Royal Greenwich Observatory, fiction Drama Trading companies Dutch Classic Literature Moles (Spies) Political British and Irish fiction (fictional works by one author) English literature Africa, fiction Fiction, psychological London (England), fiction Fiction, political Large type books English Romances Romance Ingles English fiction Drama (dramatic works by one author) Terrorists, fiction Fiction, thrillers, espionage Jewish Christian Biographical Medical Suspense Religious Psychological Occult & Supernatural Mystery & Detective Historical Fantasy Classics Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Radicalism Collected works (single author, multi-form) Fiction, mystery & detective, general Novela policíaca inglesa American fiction (fictional works by one author) England, fiction Mystery and detective stories Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924. Secret agent Conrad, Joseph Secret agent (Conrad, Joseph) Anarchistes -- Romans, nouvelles, etc Attentats à la bombe -- Romans, nouvelles, etc Terrorism Fiction Conspiracies Anarchists Bombings Royal Greenwich Observatory LANGUAGE. LINGUISTICS. LITERATURE Literature Literary criticism. Literary studies

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Adolf Verloc

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1900's

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1928, Methuen & Co. Ltd.
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. xliii-xlvi).

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Oxford, New York
Series
Oxford world's classics
Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.912
Library of Congress
PR6005.O4 S4 2004b, PR6005.O4S4 2004

The Physical Object

Pagination
liv, 245 p. ;
Number of pages
245

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL3317441M
Internet Archive
secretagentsimpl0000conr
ISBN 10
0192801694
LCCN
2004266345
OCLC/WorldCat
53871414
LibraryThing
7220
Goodreads
86658

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Work ID
OL39108W
Wikidata
Q1247666
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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. The novel is dedicated to H. G. Wells and deals broadly with anarchism, espionage, and terrorism. It also deals with exploitation of the vulnerable in Verloc's relationship with his brother-in-law Stevie, who has an intellectual disability. Conrad’s gloomy portrait of London depicted in the novel was influenced by Charles Dickens’ Bleak House.

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