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Mr Verloc, going out in the morning, left his shop nominally in charge of his brother-in-law. It could be done, because there was very little business at any time, and practically none at all before the evening. Mr Verloc cared but little about his ostensible business. And, moreover, his wife was in charge of his brother-in-law. The shop was small, and so was the house. It was one of those grimy brick houses which existed in large quantities before the era of reconstruction dawned upon London. The shop was a square box of a place, with the front glazed in small panes. In the daytime the door remained closed; in the evening it stood discreetly but suspiciously ajar. The window contained photographs of more or less undressed dancing girls; nondescript packages in wrappers like patent medicines; closed yellow paper envelopes, very flimsy, and marked two-and-six in heavy black figures; a few numbers of ancient French comic publications hung across a string as if to dry; a dingy blue china bowl, a casket of black wood, bottles of marking ink, and rubber stamps; a few books, with titles hinting at impropriety; a few apparently old copies of obscure newspapers, badly printed, with titles like The Torch, The Gong—rousing titles. And the two gas jets inside the panes were always turned low, either for economy’s sake or for the sake of the customers. These customers were either very young men, who hung about the window for a time before slipping in suddenly; or men of a more mature age, but looking generally as if they were not in funds. - Taken from "The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale" written by Joseph Conrad

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Independently published (March 11, 2019)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 261 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1090168411
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1090168412
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.01 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.66 x 9 inches

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Polish author Joseph Conrad is considered to be one of the greatest English-language novelists, a remarkable achievement considering English was not his first language. 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. Regarded as a forerunner of modernist literature, Conrad s writing style and characters have influenced such distinguished writers as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, William S. Burroughs, Hunter S. Thompson, and George Orwell, among many others. Many of Conrad s novels have been adapted for film, most notably Heart of Darkness, which served as the inspiration and foundation for Francis Ford Coppola s 1979 film Apocalypse Now.

Conrad Fischer, M.D., is one of the most experienced educators in medicine today. His breadth of teaching extends from medical students to USMLE prep to Specialty Board exams. In addition, Dr. Fischer is the Associate Chief of Medicine for Educational and Academic Activities at SUNY Downstate School of Medicine, and is an Attending Physician at King's County Hospital in Brooklyn, NY. Dr. Fischer has been Chairman of Medicine for Kaplan Medical since 1999, and has held Residency Program Director positions at both Maimonides Medical Center and Flushing Hospital in New York City.

Sonia Reichert, MD., is the Director of Medical Curriculum for Kaplan Medical.

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A Masterpiece By A Master

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 18, 2015

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This is one of the greatest and most interesting novels in the language.

Greatest because it's written with consummate skill, the characters come alive in your mind vividly, the narrative is as well-constructed as any by Flaubert or James, Conrad's masters, and the prose is remarkably fluent and felicitous, though it's a grim story (but so is MADAME BOVARY). What's even more interesting is that THE SECRET AGENT could accurately be called a "thriller", the precursor of the best of Graham Greene, though Greene is a very good novelist and Conrad is a supreme artist of classical standing.

THE SECRET AGENT was adapted for the screen by Hitchcock, one of his best films of the 1930s. I think there are also some other film and TV versions, though I'm not familiar with any of them. (Hitchcock's film is well worth looking up, not least for the appearance of the extrordinarily young and beautiful Sylvia Sydney, although apparently she and Hitchcock clashed so violently during the shoot, that he never employed her again in any of his films ... well, she wasn't a blonde!)

Conrad's early novels (ALMAYER'S FOLLY, AN OUTCAST OF THE ISLANDS) are only worth reading if you're a completist or a Conrad fanatic, ditto his later novels (THE ARROW OF GOLD, THE RESCUE, THE ROVER, SUSPENSE). But to miss THE SECRET AGENT, as well as LORD JIM, NOSTROMO, UNDER WESTERN EYES, and VICTORY, would be tragic if you're interested in serious fiction of any vintage.

At this point, in the process of rerereading all these books, I'll make my claim: Conrad is the greatest British novelist ever.

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And like the anarchists of the novel

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 1, 2014

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The Secret Agent is a novel about the anarchist movement in England of circa 150 years ago and their attempt to blowup the Greenwich Observatory and thereby destroy The First Meridian time standard and cause the clocks throughout the world to be thrown out of synchronism causing mass confusion in government and elsewhere. They (the anarchist) thought that this attack on science would really upset people. But the bomb in the novel was accidentally detonated some distance from the observatory and did no harm. In connection with this novel, after The Unabomber, Ted Kazinsky, was caught he was extensively interviewed by the FBI and told them he had read "The Secret Agent" novel of Joseph Conrad got some of his ideas for attacking technology from the novel. And like the anarchists of the novel, the Unabomber did succeed in upsetting everybody. The novel is really different!

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 24, 2017

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as you would expect a good book

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Rubbish

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 14, 2017

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Absolutely dreadful. Bought it on the basis that Radio 4 bookclub really rated it. Bonkers! Grammar was never my thing but I believe a sentence should have a principal clause (one) and a number of subordinate clauses. This author does I think include a principal clause in his sentences (or maybe not?) followed by masses of subordinate clauses the net effect being that 90% of his sentences are absolutely meaningless! His characters are excellent and the story is well structured but it fails absolutely for the aforementioned fault.