The Secret Agent
A Simple Tale
by Joseph Conrad
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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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The Secret Agent: Authoritative Text, Contexts, Criticism
2016, W. W. Norton & Company
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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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in Spanish
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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
Mass Market Paperback
in English
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First Canadian "ed.," actually a re-issue of the sheets of the U.K. 1st ed., with a new t.p. giving the Toronto imprint.
"First published in 1907"--t.p. verso.
Filmed from a copy of the original publication held by the National Library of Canada. Ottawa : Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions, 1995.
442 p. ; 19 cm.
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