The Secret Agent
earliest edition we have, 1907 LGF -Livre de Poche, 1997 318 pages
**The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale** is a novel by Joseph Conrad, first published in 1907. 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. The novel is dedicated to H. G. Wells and deals broadly with anarchism, espiona...
Where to get it
Search WorldCat (worldwide union catalog) for this title
This opens a library search. We don't know what any library holds — the search may come back empty.
Change library
How it reads
Your log
What readers call it
No reader has tagged this one yet — be the first.
Sign in to confirm or add — reader tags are the only source of this information.
Content warnings
Reported by readers, not by us or the author. Unreported is not the same as absent.
No content warnings reported. That means no reader has added one yet — not that this book has none.
Also called trigger warnings. Reader reporting opens with the reading log.
Editions we hold
Bibliographic facts on this page come from the Open Library monthly dump (CC0) unless a correction says otherwise. Nothing here is generated.