Download or read book The Secret Agent written by Joseph Conrad and published by Collector's Library. This book was released on 2005 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An impenetrable mystery seems destined to hang for ever over this act of madness or despair. 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. This new edition includes a critical introduction which describes Conrad's great London novel as the realization of a monstrous town, a place of idiocy, madness, criminality and butchery.
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.
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.
Download or read book The Secret Agent written by Joseph Conrad and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-31 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a very interesting and great story that is written by Joseph CONRAD. Meet Mr. Verloc, a man who runs a pornography shop and hangs out with a bunch of anarchists...but who is also a secret agent for a foreign government. Talk about double lives. One day, he is suddenly summoned to meet his new boss at the embassy, a guy named Mr. Vladimir who hatches a plan that'll force the police to start locking up political agitators without due process. Vladimir orders Verloc to make sure that a bomb is planted at the Greenwich Observatory. Verloc doesn't want to do it, but when Mr. Vladimir threatens his cushy life, he becomes very anxious and agrees to the plan.Next thing you know, you're listening to one of Verloc's friends, Ossipon, chatting with another guy (called the Professor) at a bar. Ossipon says that someone has blown himself up in Greenwich Park, near the observatory. The Professor reveals to Ossipon that he gave a bomb to Verloc a few days earlier, and Ossipon becomes convinced that Verloc is the man who's blown himself up. While investigating the crime, Chief Inspector Heat finds a piece of material with Verloc's address sewn into it. Despite the connection with Verloc, though, Heat chooses to blame another known anarchist named Michaelis for the crime. Heat's boss, however, doesn't want Michaelis tied up with the crime, so after consulting a member of English parliament, he goes over Inspector Heat's head and investigates the crime himself.
Download or read book The Secret Agent written by Joseph Conrad and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'An impenetrable mystery seems destined to hang for ever over this act of madness or despair.'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 'ASimple 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 critical introduction which describes Conrad's great London novel as the realization of a 'monstrous town', a place of idiocy, madness, criminality, and butchery.
Download or read book The Secret Agent Annotated written by Joseph Conrad Joseph Conrad and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-25 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mr Verloc, the spy, keeps a shop in London's Soho where he resides with his significant other Winnie, her sick mother, and her nitwit sibling, Stevie. At the point when Verloc is hesitantly associated with a rebel plot to explode the Greenwich Observatory things turn out badly, and what seems, by all accounts, to be "a basic story" demonstrates to include legislators, police officers, unfamiliar ambassadors, and London's in vogue society in the haziest and most astounding interrelations. In view of the content which Conrad's first English peruses appreciated, this new version incorporates a full and cutting-edge book reference, a far-reaching order and a basic presentation which portrays Conrad's incredible London tale as the acknowledgment of a "tremendous town," a position of folly, frenzy, culpability, and savage butchery.
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 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.
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).
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Download or read book The Secret Agent written by Joseph Conrad and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-13 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adolf Verloc, a secret agent in the employ of the Embassy, has been embedded in the socialist Red Committee in London. He is summoned to the Embassy to meet with First Secretary Mr. Vladimir, who berates him for the lack of concrete results from his work; instead of just preventing attacks, Mr. Verloc is ordered to lead his radical associates to carry out a terrorist act that will strike at the very fabric of the British middle class, so that they will finally allow for repressive legislation. Mr. Verloc-who lives with his wife Winnie, her mentally handicapped brother Stevie, and her mother in their shop selling shady wares-hosts Red Committee members Michaelis, Comrade Ossipon, and Karl Yundt. The radicals are quick to spout vainglorious statements, but Mr. Verloc despairs of their being able to accomplish the extraordinary act Mr. Vladimir has asked him to produce.
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 by Joseph Conrad Delphi Classics Illustrated written by Joseph Conrad and published by Delphi Classics. This book was released on 2017-07-17 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘The Secret Agent’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of Joseph Conrad’. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. The Delphi Classics edition of Conrad includes original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of the author, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily. eBook features: * The complete unabridged text of ‘The Secret Agent’ * Beautifully illustrated with images related to Conrad’s works * Individual contents table, allowing easy navigation around the eBook * Excellent formatting of the textPlease visit www.delphiclassics.com to learn more about our wide range of titles
Download or read book The Secret Agent written by Joseph Conrad and published by Penguin Books, Limited (UK). This book was released on 1994 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the only novel Conrad set in London, "The Secret Agent" communicates a profoundly ironic view of human affairs. The story is woven around an attack on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894 masterminded by Verloc, a Russian spy working for the police, and ostensibly a member of an anarchist group in Soho. His masters instruct him to discredit the anarchists in a humiliating fashion, and when his evil plan goes horribly awry, Verlac must deal with the repercussions of his actions.
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 Illustrated written by Joseph Conrad and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-18 with total page 316 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 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."
Download or read book The secret agent a simple tale written by Joseph Conrad and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
