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Title	:	The Secret Agent
Author	:	Joseph Conrad
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Oxford World's Classics
Pages	:	Pages: 304 pages
Published	:	April 29th 2004 by Oxford University Press (first published 1907)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Literature. Mystery

The Secret Agent

Joseph Conrad

Paperback | Pages: 304 pages

Rating: 3.59 | 17919 Users | 1260 Reviews

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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.

Based on the text which Conrad's first English readers enjoyed, this new edition includes a full and up-to-date bibliography, a comprehensive chronology and a critical introduction which describes Conrad's great London novel as the realization of a "monstrous town," a place of idiocy, madness, criminality, and savage butchery. It also discusses contemporary anarchist activity in the UK, imperialism, and Conrad's narrative techniques.

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Original Title:	The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale
ISBN:	0192801694 (ISBN13: 9780192801692)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Adolf Verloc, Winnie Verloc, Stevie, Chief Inspector Heat, Comrade Alexander Ossipon, Michaelis, Mr. Vladimir, the Assistant Commissioner, Sir Ethelred, Karl Yundt
Setting:	London, England,1886(United Kingdom)

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A first time read of the author and perhaps this might not have been the novel to start with. Found the first half of the novel confusing and convoluted although the story did gain some momentum in the second half and become engrossing. A novel of spies, espionage and terrorism in the late 1800's.One of those novels that you have an inkling early on that won't end well for the characters involved.

First published in 1907, this spy fiction might be a literary adventure to those unfamiliar with Joseph Conrad's writing style enriched by apt, scholarly words and idioms admirable for his writing as his third language. From its 13 chapters, I found reading its first three fourths confusing due to its plot; however, I kept reading and gradually saw the light around Chapters 9-10 onwards. Then I enjoyed reading Chapter 11 in which I christened by noting as a tragic chapter since all episodes

Like his fellow genius scribes, E. Bronte and Dostoevsky, Joseph Conrad plunges us into the dark Nietzschean swamps of the human soul. He dares to look into the abyss and unflinchingly reaches in, grasping the monsters within us. With his adept hands, in the blazing light of his vision and words, Conrad holds us up to ourselves. Winne Verloc, like Kurtz, is vividly cast. She is a white, hot flash of brilliance. Conrad depicts her in crystal clear pitch. She seems to be drawn from Ophelia,

Grand opera.Tosca stabs Scarpia. Victorian London, amid a nest of spiesand terrorists. Classic stuff fr a non-stylist who is, nonetheless, a great writer (Conrad's first language was Polish, his 2d French, he wrote in English). A strong influence on Graham Greene, Conrad rips open a marital horror bet a scuzzy anarchist and his simple wife after her teen brud is killed x his bomb.Their marriage was legalized prostitution and, in her outrage, the shattered sister becomes a murderer. "She did not

I started this book during a speed dating project and decided to try to finish all those books I dated and decided to keep and finish before the end of 2015. Conrad himself had to defend this book to critics - it isn't his usual style, they didn't understand the context, etc. There is a brief intro in my edition by Conrad that attempts to justify it, but to me it was a justification it didn't need.Published in 1907, the central story of this short (but incredibly dense) novel is a bombing scheme

Second book in a row that appears on American high school curriculum and this time I have to wonder what educators are trying to achieve by teaching it. The text is very dense and I can't imagine many teens getting anything out of this when having it forced upon them. Without a doubt Conrad can tell stories and knows the words to tell them with but Jesus he has inspired the least impressive review I have ever felt the need to write. Page after page of political ranting, no thank you. I'm sorry

This classic is worth reading. This story of a marriage also tells about the anarchist movement in London. When finally a terrorist attack is made on the Greenwich Observatory, the tale gets in a faster pace to recount all the consequences of this account.The book is excellently written and has a special attention to the description of the characters and their psychology. At the same time the book is very slow especially at the beginning. Id give it just below 4 stars