Conrad s literary works often featured a nautical setting, reflecting the influences of his early career in the merchant navy, and his depictions of the struggles of the human spirit in a cold, indifferent world are best exemplified in such seminal works as heart of darkness, lord jimm, the secret agent, nostromo, and typhoon. For further information, including links to online text, reader. A simple tale version 2 m4b audiobook 268mb download cover art download cd case insert. 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. Inspired by an actual attempted terrorist attack in nineteenthcentury london, the secret agent offers a chillingly prophetic portrait of contemporary. Adolph verloc operates from a seedy soho shop, where he deals in pornography and espionage. The novel centers on verloc, a shopowner, phonyanarchist and double agent, who becomes embroiled in an ambitious terrorist plan to bomb the. He was born in 1857 into a family of minor polish gentility his homeland under russian rule at the time.
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