The Secret Agent (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Jósef Teodor Konrad Na& Korzeniowski
- First Published: 1907
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: 1880’s
- Setting: London
- Principal Characters: Mr. Verloc, Winnie, Stevie, The Assistant Commissioner, Chief Inspector Heat, Mr. Vladimir, Michaelis, Ossipon
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: Murder or homicide, Police, Nineteenth century, Alienation, England or English people, London, Bombs, Terrorism or terrorists, Espionage or spies, Anarchism or anarchists
- Locales: London, England
The Story:
Mr. Verloc was on his way to a certain foreign embassy, summoned there, to his astonishment and unease, at the unseemly hour of eleven in the morning. Ambling down the street, bulky and stolid, Mr. Verloc did not look very much like the agent provocateur that he was supposed to be. He kept an obscure and ill-patronized little shop, behind which were quarters for his family. There he often entertained a group of London anarchists from whom he had carefully kept the secret that he was an embassy agent. He grumbled inwardly as he approached the embassy, thinking how...
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