The Secret Agent is one of Conrad's later political novels in which he moved away from his former tales of seafaring. The secret agent of the title is an agent provocateur, paid by a foreign power, who is supposed to animate anarchist terrorists in the London of the late 19th century towards violence. 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). Polish literature, particularly patriotic literature, was held in high esteem by the area's Polish population.The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale is a novel by Joseph Conrad, first published in 1907. The Secret Agent A Simple Tale By Joseph Conrad Volume 1 of 2 EasyRead Super Large Copyright 2008 Accessible Publishing Systems PTY, Ltd. He was christened J zef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski after his maternal grandfather J zef, his paternal grandfather Teodor, and the heroes (both named "Konrad") of two poems by Adam Mickiewicz, Dziady and Konrad Wallenrod, and was known to his family as "Konrad", rather than "J zef".Though the vast majority of the surrounding area's inhabitants were Ukrainians, and the great majority of Berdychiv's residents were Jewish, almost all the countryside was owned by the Polish szlachta (nobility), to which Conrad's family belonged as bearers of the Nalecz coat-of-arms. He was the only child of Apollo Korzeniowski-a writer, translator, political activist, and would-be revolutionary-and his wife Ewa Bobrowska. Conrad was born on 3 December 1857 in Berdychiv (Polish: Berdycz w), Ukraine, then part of the Russian Empire the region had once been part of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland.
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