The Secret Agent is set in the seedy world of Adolf Verloc, a storekeeper and double agent in late-Victorian London who pretends to sympathize with a group of international anarchists but reports on their activities to both the Russian embassy and the British government. As he is drawn further into a terrorist bombing plot, his family also becomes involved, with devastating consequences. Based on a real-life failed anarchist plot, The Secret Agent is both intimately engaged with its historical moment and profoundly relevant today.
This new Broadview Edition helps to recreate the historical context that informed Conrad's preoccupations with global terrorism, human degeneration, the relativity of time, and the position of women.
| ISBN: | 9781551117843 |
| Publication date: | 31st August 2009 |
| Author: | Joseph Conrad |
| Publisher: | Broadview Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 320 pages |
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General Fiction |
The Secret Agent is set in the seedy world of Adolf Verloc, a storekeeper and double agent in late-Victorian London who pretends to sympathize with a group of international anarchists but reports on their activities to both the Russian embassy and the British government. As he is drawn further into a terrorist bombing plot, his family also becomes involved, with devastating consequences.
The Secret Agent features in the following genres: General Fiction
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The Secret Agent was written by Joseph Conrad and published by Broadview Press
The Secret Agent has 320 pages