The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale
By Joseph Conrad
Cover: Charing Cross Bridge (1899), oil on canvas by Claude Monet (1840-1926) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1926)
The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale is an anarchist spy fiction novel by Polish–British author Joseph Conrad, first "printed (1905–1906) as eleven installments in Ridgway's" and published in book form on 12 September 1907. The story is set in Soho, 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 tales of seafaring. The novel is dedicated to H. G. Wells and deals broadly with anarchism, espionage and terrorism.
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