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

The secret agent

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Conrad's novel offers an ironic meditation not only on anarchy and revolution, with all the deception and intrigue they imply, but also on loyalty - to friends and family, to country and ideals.

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WF Howes Ltd, W F Howes Ltd
Language
English
Pages
374

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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, General, Jewish, Christian, Biographical, Medical, Suspense, Science Fiction, Religious, Psychological, Occult & Supernatural, Mystery & Detective, Hard-Boiled, 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, Children's fiction, Mystery and detective stories, Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924. Secret agent, Conrad, Joseph, Secret agent (Conrad, Joseph), Conspiration -- Romans, nouvelles, etc, Anarchistes -- Romans, nouvelles, etc, Attentats à la bombe -- Romans, nouvelles, etc, Play, Terrorism, Fiction, Conspiracies, Anarchists, Bombings

People

Adolf Verloc

Places

London (England), Borneo, England

Times

1900's

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The Secret Agent: Authoritative Text, Contexts, Criticism
2016, W. W. Norton & Company
Paperback in English - First edition
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The secret agent
2014, WF Howes Ltd, W F Howes Ltd
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Secret Agent
2012, Penguin Books, Limited
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The secret agent
2008, Wilder Publications
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The Secret Agent: Centennial Editon (Signet Classics)
April 3, 2007, Signet Classics
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El agente secreto/The Secret Agent
June 30, 2005, Ediciones Catedra S.A.
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The secret agent
2003, Giunti
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The secret agent: a simple tale
1997, Dent, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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The secret agent: a simple tale
1985, Penguin Books, Viking Penguin
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SECRET AGENT, THE
December 1, 1983, Bantam Classics, Bantam Books
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Published by W.F. Howes under the Clipper imprint.

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Rearsby, Leicester

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Dewey Decimal Class
823.9/12

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Pagination
374 pages (large print)
Number of pages
374

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OL32140363M
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secretagent0000conr_s0t9
ISBN 10
1471275086, 1444828290
ISBN 13
9781471275081, 9781444828290
OCLC/WorldCat
894315218

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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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