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Book Synopsis The Secret Agent a Simple Tale Annotated and Illustrated Edition by : Joseph Conrad
Download or read book The Secret Agent a Simple Tale Annotated and Illustrated Edition written by Joseph Conrad and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-19 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph Conrad published The Secret Agent in 1907 and the work is often taken to be the major work in a trilogy of political works that Conrad published around this time (the other two are Nostromo and Under Western Eyes). The book is also taken to be Conrad's greatest metropolitan novel and makes use both of Continental and English writing styles. The Secret Agent is one of the first spy novels and is written in such a way as to require great attention on the part of the reader to make sense of the plot developments that occur (Simmons and Stape, viii).
Download or read book The Secret Agent written by Joseph Conrad and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-09 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad Joseph Conrad's Secret Agent, is a classic novel based on real events, the attempt to blow up Greenwich Observatory in 1894. The fictionalized story revolves around a beautiful young woman, her simple-minded brother and her devoted but tortured husband. The novel is a mixture of love story, spy and mystery that continues to entertain for many years after its original publication date. The novel opens as a store owner Mr. Verloc goes on a date at an embassy in London. During this meeting, Mr. Verloc is revealed to be a secret agent of the French government and is accused of no longer being productive in this capacity. In the past, the Ambassador was a man who completely trusted Mr. Verloc. However, there is a new man in charge now. He is a man of action, who expects everyone in his employ to be men of action. This man, Mr. Vladimir, suggests that Mr. Verloc create a situation to excite the emotions of the people of London, by setting off a bomb in a scientific location. As Mr. Verloc struggles with the perceived threat in Mr. Vladimir's suggestion, his friends excite his brother-in-law's emotions by discussing social reform in terms the young man misunderstands. Stevie, Mr. Verloc's brother-in-law, is a simple young man who has struggled with a job and now works exclusively in Mr. Verloc's porn store. When a man blows up in Greenwich Park, some of Mr Verloc's friends are convinced he blew himself up. The police are also immediately suspicious of Mr. Verloc, because of a blue tissue found among the deceased's belongings. An inspector, Chief Inspector Heat, believes that a friend of Mr Verloc's recently released on parole, Michaelis, is involved. He is determined to prove it, in order to continue to develop his highly respected reputation. His supervisor, the Deputy Commissioner, disagreed and decided to get himself involved in the investigation. Heat goes to Mr. Verloc's, only to find that his supervisor has been there before. Heat learns the true identity of the dead man and that Mr. Verloc was indeed involved. Heat suggests that Mr. Verloc leave the country immediately. The deputy commissioner, however, has already offered Mr Verloc a deal in exchange for information that not only wipes out Michaelis but also ends Mr Vladimir's tyrannical reign. Upon hearing of her brother's death, Ms Verloc becomes almost catatonic, as she listens to her husband explain everything that has happened. Mr. Verloc tells his young wife that his brother's death is as much his fault as it is his, as it forced Mr. Verloc to spend time with Stevie. It is also her fault that Mr Verloc was arrested so quickly by the police, because she did not tell him about the tags she sewn on her brother's coat. Mrs. Verloc becomes homicidal and stabs her husband with a carving knife. Mrs. Verloc runs from the shop, fearing to die by the gallows. Mrs. Verloc meets a friend of her husband's and begs him for help. However, instead of helping her, Ossipon, her husband's friend, abandons her and steals all her money. Ms. Verloc ends up committing suicide by anonymously jumping off a steamboat. Only Ossipon knows the truth about Mrs. Verloc's death.
Book Synopsis THE SECRET AGENT : A SIMPLE TALE BY JOSEPH CONRAD by : JOSEPH CONRAD
Download or read book THE SECRET AGENT : A SIMPLE TALE BY JOSEPH CONRAD written by JOSEPH CONRAD and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2022-05-22 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Secret Agent Illustrated by : Joseph Conrad
Download or read book The Secret Agent Illustrated written by Joseph Conrad and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-05 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale is a novel by Joseph Conrad, 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).It is notable for being one of Conrad's later political novels in which he moved away from his former tales of seafaring.
Download or read book The Secret Agent written by Joseph Conrad and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-06 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Secret Agent-(Annotated) by : Joseph Conrad
Download or read book The Secret Agent-(Annotated) written by Joseph Conrad and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale is a novel by Joseph Conrad, 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. The Secret Agent is one of Conrad's later political novels in which he moved away from his former tales of seafaring.
Book Synopsis The Secret Agent (Annotated) by : Joseph Conrad
Download or read book The Secret Agent (Annotated) written by Joseph Conrad and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale is a novel by Joseph Conrad, 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 notable for being one of Conrad's later political novels in which he moved away from his former tales of seafaring. The novel deals broadly with anarchism, espionage and terrorism. It also deals with exploitation of the vulnerable, particularly in Verloc's relationship with his brother-in-law Stevie, who has an intellectual disability. The Secret Agent was ranked the 46th best novel of the 20th century by Modern Library. Because of its terrorism theme, it was noted as "one of the three works of literature most cited in the American media" two weeks after the September 11 attacks.
Book Synopsis The Secret Agent Illustrated by : Joseph Conrad
Download or read book The Secret Agent Illustrated written by Joseph Conrad and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-26 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale is a novel by Joseph Conrad, 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).It is notable for being one of Conrad's later political novels in which he moved away from his former tales of seafaring.
Book Synopsis The Secret Agent A Simple Tale by : Joseph Conrad
Download or read book The Secret Agent A Simple Tale written by Joseph Conrad and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-18 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale is a novel by Joseph Conrad, first published in 1907.
Download or read book The Secret Agent written by Joseph Conrad and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-03 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1907, this classic novel is an exploration of terrorism and anarchism in late nineteenth-century London.
Download or read book The Secret Agent written by Joseph Conrad and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-17 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph Conrad's dark satire on English society with chillingly prophetic examination of terrorism. Inspired by an actual attempt to blow up the Greenwich Observatory, The Secret Agent portrays the world of late-nineteenth-century London, with its fatuous civil servants, corrupt police, and squalid underworld characters like Verloc, a pornographer acting as a government informant. Verloc's assignment is to provoke the radicals whose group he has penetrated into committing an act of such violence that they will be discredited and their appeal to the masses destroyed. With its questionable characters and amoral caricatures, the novel is as much a black satire of English society as a frightening mirror of the present day.
Download or read book The Secret Agent written by Joseph Conrad and published by . This book was released on 2020-05 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A triangle of conspiracy is built, then destroyed, by the self-interest of its participants. Mr. Verloc, employed by a foreign embassy to incriminate an anarchist group, instead destroys his family, his illusions, and his own life in a terrorist act gone utterly wrong. Conrad's ironic and troubling novel exposes political extremism and the strength-and vanity-of illusion.
Download or read book The Secret Agent written by Joseph Conrad and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Secret Agent written by Joseph Conrad and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-08-10 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale is a novel by Joseph Conrad, 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 notable for being one of Conrad's later political novels in which he moved away from his former tales of seafaring. The novel deals broadly with anarchism, espionage and terrorism.It also deals with exploitation of the vulnerable, particularly in Verloc's relationship with his brother-in-law Stevie, who has an intellectual disability.Because of its terrorism theme, it was noted as "one of the three works of literature most cited in the American media" two weeks after the September 11 attacks. *Plot summary* The novel is set in London in 1886 and follows the life of Mr. Verloc, a secret agent. Verloc is also a businessman who owns a shop which sells pornographic material, contraceptives, and bric-a-brac. He lives with his wife Winnie, his mother-in-law, and his brother-in-law, Stevie. Stevie has a mental disability, possibly autism, [4] which causes him to be very excitable; his sister, Verloc's wife, attends to him, treating him more as a son than as a brother. Verloc's friends are a group of anarchists of which Comrade Ossipon, Michaelis, and "The Professor" are the most prominent. Although largely ineffectual as terrorists, their actions are known to the police. The group produce anarchist literature in the form of pamphlets entitled F.P., an acronym for The Future of the Proletariat. The novel begins in Verloc's home, as he and his wife discuss the trivialities of everyday life, which introduces the reader to Verloc's family. Soon after, Verloc leaves to meet Mr. Vladimir, the new First Secretary in the embassy of a foreign country. Although a member of an anarchist cell, Verloc is also secretly employed by the Embassy as an agent provocateur. Vladimir informs Verloc that from reviewing his service history he is far from an exemplary model of a secret agent and, to redeem himself, must carry out an operation - the destruction of Greenwich Observatory by a bomb explosion. Vladimir explains that Britain's lax attitude to anarchism endangers his own country, and he reasons that an attack on 'science', which he claims is the current vogue amongst the public, will provide the necessary outrage for suppression. Verloc later meets with his friends, who discuss politics and law, and the notion of a communist revolution. Unbeknownst to the group, Stevie, Verloc's brother-in-law, overhears the conversation, which greatly disturbs him. The novel flashes forward to after the bombing has taken place. Comrade Ossipon meets The Professor, who discusses having given explosives to Verloc. The Professor then describes the nature of the bomb which he carries in his coat at all times: it allows him to press a button which will blow him up in twenty seconds, and those nearest to him. After The Professor leaves the meeting, he stumbles into Chief Inspector Heat. Heat is a policeman who is working on the case regarding a recent explosion at Greenwich, where one man was killed. Heat informs The Professor that he is not a suspect in the case, but that he is being monitored due to his terrorist inclinations and anarchist background. Knowing that Michaelis has recently moved to the countryside to write a book, the Chief Inspector informs the Assistant Commissioner that he has a contact, Verloc, who may be able to assist in the case. The Assistant Commissioner shares some of the same high society acquaintances with Michaelis and is chiefly motivated by finding the extent of Michaelis's involvement in order to assess any possible embarrassment to his connections. He later speaks to his superior, Sir Ethelred, about his intentions to solve the case alone, rather than rely on the effort of Chief Inspector Heat...........
Download or read book The Secret Agent written by Joseph Conrad and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-12-10 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why buy our paperbacks? Standard Font size of 10 for all books High Quality Paper Fulfilled by Amazon Expedited shipping 30 Days Money Back Guarantee BEWARE of Low-quality sellers Don't buy cheap paperbacks just to save a few dollars. Most of them use low-quality papers & binding. Their pages fall off easily. Some of them even use very small font size of 6 or less to increase their profit margin. It makes their books completely unreadable. How is this book unique? Unabridged (100% Original content) Font adjustments & biography included Illustrated About The Secret Agent By Joseph Conrad The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale is a novel by Joseph Conrad, 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 notable for being one of Conrad's later political novels in which he moved away from his former tales of seafaring. The novel deals broadly with anarchism, espionage and terrorism. It also deals with exploitation of the vulnerable, particularly in Verloc's relationship with his brother-in-law Stevie, who has an intellectual disability. The Secret Agent was ranked the 46th best novel of the 20th century by Modern Library. Because of its terrorism theme, it was noted as "one of the three works of literature most cited in the American media" two weeks after the September 11 attacks.
Download or read book The Secret Agent written by Joseph Conrad and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale is a novel by Joseph Conrad, published in 1907.The story is set in London in 1886 and deals with Mr Anton 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 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 a learning difficulty.Because of its terrorism theme, it was noted as "one of the three works of literature most cited in the American media" two weeks after the September 11 attacks.Set in London in 1886, the novel follows the life of Adolf Verloc, a secret agent. Verloc is also a businessman who owns a shop which sells pornographic material, contraceptives and bric-a-brac. He lives with his wife Winnie, his mother-in-law, and his brother-in-law, Stevie. Stevie has a mental disability, possibly autism, which causes him to be excitable; his sister, Verloc's wife, attends to him, treating him more as a son than as a brother. Verloc's friends are a group of anarchists of which Comrade Ossipon, Michaelis, and "The Professor" are the most prominent. Although largely ineffectual as terrorists, their actions are known to the police. The group produces anarchist literature in the form of pamphlets entitled F.P., an acronym for The Future of the Proletariat.
Download or read book The Secret Agent written by Joseph Conrad and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-02-24 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a corrupt London underworld of criminals, terrorists, and fanatics, Mr. Verloc is assigned to plant a bomb. The tragic repercussions for his family show how Conrad's ironic voice is concerned not with politics but with the terrible fates of ordinary people. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
