| The Secret Agent Contributor(s): Cedeno, Yasmira (Editor), Conrad, Joseph (Author) |
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ISBN: 1981560408 ISBN-13: 9781981560400 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $10.74 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections |
| Lexile Measure: 1030 |
| Physical Information: 0.46" H x 6" W x 9" (0.66 lbs) 220 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Secret Agent is a novel by Joseph Conrad, published in 1907. 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. |