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El agente secreto (The Secret Agent, en el original, en inglés) es una novela escrita por Joseph Conrad, publicada en 1907. La historia se desarrolla en Londres en 1886 y se centra en la vida de Mr. Verloc y su trabajo como espía. [1]
Characters. Adolf Verloc: a secret agent who owns a shop in Soho in London. His primary characteristic, as described by Conrad, is indolence. He has been employed by an unnamed embassy to spy on revolutionary groups, which then orders him to instigate a terrorist act against the Greenwich Observatory.
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El agente secreto de Joseph Conrad es una obra literaria que ha dejado huella en la historia del género de espionaje. Esta novela, publicada en 1907, cuenta la historia de un agente polaco que trabaja para el gobierno ruso y se infiltra en un grupo de anarquistas en Londres.
Joseph Conrad, John Lyon (Editor) 3.59. 22,798 ratings1,762 reviews. 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 ...
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The Secret Agent is a three-part British espionage television drama serial based on the 1907 novel The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad. The show stars Toby Jones, Vicky McClure, Stephen Graham, David Dawson and Ian Hart. The three-part series began airing on BBC One on 17 July 2016.
The Secret Agent Summary. Next. Chapter 1. Literary devices: Genre. Mood. Setting. Style. Tone. View all. Mr. Adolf Verloc, a shopkeeper in his forties, heads out into the London streets one morning, leaving his business in the hands of his wife, Winnie, and Winnie’s brother Stevie.
The Secret Agent, novel by Joseph Conrad, first published serially in the New York weekly Ridgeway’s in 1906–07 and in book form in 1907. This absurdist story is noted for its adept characterizations, melodramatic irony, and psychological intrigue.
