Who wrote the novels 'Lord Jim' (1900) and 'The Secret Agent' (1907)?
"The Secret Agent (2016 TV series) The Secret Agent is a three-part British espionage television drama serial based on the 1907 novel ""The Secret Agent"" by Joseph Conrad. The show stars Toby Jones, Vicky McClure, Stephen Graham and Ian Hart. The three-part series began airing on BBC One on 17 July 2016. It is the fourth BBC adaptation of the novel, having been previously made in 1967, 1972, and 1992. In 2014, the BBC ordered a three-part television series based on the novel. It was filmed around the United Kingdom from October–December 2015, with Toby Jones, Vicky McClure and Stephen"
"threat of revolutionaries and anarchists, and historical romance. ""Kim"" (1901) by Rudyard Kipling concerns the Anglo–Russian Great Game of imperial and geopolitical rivalry and strategic warfare for supremacy in Central Asia, usually in Afghanistan. ""The Secret Agent"" (1907) by Joseph Conrad examines the psychology and ideology motivating the socially marginal men and women of a revolutionary cell determined to provoke revolution in Britain with a terrorist bombing of the Greenwich Observatory. Conrad's next novel, ""Under Western Eyes"" (1911), follows a reluctant spy sent by the Russian Empire to infiltrate a group of revolutionaries based in Geneva. G. K. Chesterton's ""The"
"The Confidential Agent The Confidential Agent (1939) is a thriller novel by British author Graham Greene. Fueled by Benzedrine, Greene wrote it in six weeks. To avoid distraction, he rented a room in Bloomsbury from a landlady who lived in an apartment below him. He used that apartment in the novel (it's where D. hides for a day) and had an affair with the landlady's daughter. He wrote the book for money and was so displeased with his work that he wanted it published under a pseudonym. But critics took a far different view; ""The New York Times"", for example,"
"talent was early on recognised by English intellectuals, popular success eluded him until the 1913 publication of ""Chance"", which is often considered one of his weaker novels. Edward Said describes three phases to Conrad's literary career. In the first and longest, from the 1890s to World War I, Conrad wrote most of his great works, including ""The Nigger of the 'Narcissus'"" (1897), ""Heart of Darkness"" (1899), ""Lord Jim"" (1900), ""Nostromo"" (1904), ""The Secret Agent"" (1907) and ""Under Western Eyes"" (1911). The second phase, spanning the war and following the popular success of ""Chance"" (1913), is marked by the advent of"
"The Gem The Gem (1907 – 1939) was a story paper published in Great Britain by Amalgamated Press in the early 20th century, predominantly featuring the activities of boys at the fictional school ""St. Jim's"". These stories were all written using the pen-name of Martin Clifford, the majority by Charles Hamilton who was more widely known as Frank Richards the creator of Billy Bunter. Many issues also included a shorter serial story (a variety of detective, school, and adventure yarns were featured); these parts of the paper were not written by Charles Hamilton. The most famous St Jim's characters were"
"by author Charles Hamilton, under the pen name Frank Richards, over a 53-year period from 1908 until his death on Christmas Eve 1961. During this time, it is estimated that he was responsible for the equivalent of over 1,000 full-length novels, which ranks him as one of the most prolific published authors of all time. From 1908 until early 1940, he was responsible for almost all of the content of the weekly children's publications The Magnet and The Gem, featuring school stories at the fictional Greyfriars and St Jim's Schools. The Secret Seven was an 11 part series published in"
"the Yellow Room""), was written in 1907 by French journalist and author Gaston Leroux; it, too, has had many imitators. In the Golden Age of Detective Fiction impossible crimes were mainly solved by brilliant amateur sleuths, inspired by Arthur Conan Doyle's creation Sherlock Holmes, who were inexplicably given free rein by Scotland Yard and, to a markedly lesser extent in their American equivalents, the New York Police Department; puzzling mysteries were solved by sheer reasoning and brain power. Such creators of famous Anglo-Saxon amateur detectives as Jacques Futrelle, Thomas and Mary Hanshew, G. K. Chesterton, Carolyn Wells, John Dickson Carr,"
"Rankin. Erskine Childers' ""The Riddle of the Sands"" (1903), is an early example of spy fiction. A noted writer in the spy novel genre was John le Carré, while in thriller writing, Ian Fleming created the character James Bond 007 in January 1952, while on holiday at his Jamaican estate, Goldeneye. Fleming chronicled Bond's adventures in twelve novels, including ""Casino Royale"" (1953), ""Live and Let Die"" (1954), ""Dr. No"" (1958), ""Goldfinger"" (1959), ""Thunderball"" (1961), and nine short story works. Hungarian-born Emma Orczy's (1865–1947) original play, ""The Scarlet Pimpernel"", opened in October 1903 at Nottingham's Theatre Royal but was not a"
"leading members were the major fantasy novelists; J. R. R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. Lewis is known for ""The Screwtape Letters"" (1942), ""The Chronicles of Narnia"" and ""The Space Trilogy"", while Tolkien is best known as the author of ""The Hobbit"" (1937), ""The Lord of the Rings"", and ""The Silmarillion"". Among important writers of genre fiction in the second half of the twentieth-century are thriller writer Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond 007. Fleming chronicled Bond's adventures in twelve novels, including ""Casino Royale"" (1953). In contrast to the larger-than-life spy capers of Bond, John le Carré was an author of"
"Herbert Adams (novelist) Herbert Adams (1874–1958) was an English writer of fifty 'cosy' mystery novels, mostly featuring the detective Roger Bennion, which were often set in or around golfing competitions. He also wrote short stories, humorous verse and two other mystery novels under the pseudonym Jonathan Gray. Herbert Adams is the creator of: 1. 'Jimmie Haswell', a lawyer in London. 2. 'Roger Bennion', a golfer and amateur sleuth. Adams also wrote under the pseudonym 'Jonathan Gray'. 'Jimmie Haswell' Novels: 1) The Secret of Bogey House 1924 2) The Crooked Lip 1926 3) The Queen's Gate Mystery 1927 4) The Empty"
"The Secret Servant (Lyall novel) The Secret Servant is a third person narrative novel by English author Gavin Lyall, first published in 1980, and the first of his series of novels with the character “Harry Maxim” as the protagonist. Former SAS Major Harry Maxim is assigned to Number 10 Downing Street as a special assistant to George Harbinger, private secretary to the Prime Minister, following the suicide of his predecessor with the British Secret Service. Maxim is assigned to protect Professor John White Tyler, Britain's premier military strategist on nuclear weapons policy and famed war hero (as well as an"
"book, the nationality of the agent is not stated; in the film, he is Spanish. ""The Confidential Agent"" was adapted for the radio program ""Escape"" by Ken Crossen and broadcast on 2 April 1949, starring Berry Kroeger. The Confidential Agent The Confidential Agent (1939) is a thriller novel by British author Graham Greene. Fueled by Benzedrine, Greene wrote it in six weeks. To avoid distraction, he rented a room in Bloomsbury from a landlady who lived in an apartment below him. He used that apartment in the novel (it's where D. hides for a day) and had an affair with"
"In thriller writing, Ian Fleming created the character James Bond 007 in January 1952, while on holiday at his Jamaican estate, Goldeneye. Fleming chronicled Bond's adventures in twelve novels, including ""Casino Royale"" (1953), ""Live and Let Die"" (1954), ""Dr. No"" (1958), ""Goldfinger"" (1959), ""Thunderball"" (1961), ""The Spy Who Loved Me"" (1962), and nine short story works. In contrast to the larger-than-life spy capers of Bond, John le Carré was an author of spy novels who depicted a shadowy world of espionage and counter-espionage, and his best known novel ""The Spy Who Came in from the Cold"" (1963), is often regarded"
"Free Agent (novel) Free Agent is a 2009 spy thriller novel written by Jeremy Duns. It is the first in a trilogy of spy thrillers featuring MI6 agent Paul Dark and is set at the height of the Cold War in 1969. The novel is set in London and Nigeria during the Nigerian Civil War. Duns has said he was influenced by the novels ""A Dandy in Aspic"", by Derek Marlowe and ""The Human Factor"" by Graham Greene. It was published in the United Kingdom on 5 May 2009 by Simon & Schuster and was released in the United States"
"Donald Hamilton Donald Bengtsson Hamilton (March 24, 1916 – November 20, 2006) was an American writer of novels, short stories, and non-fiction about the outdoors. His novels consist mostly of paperback originals, principally spy fiction, but also crime fiction and westerns, such as ""The Big Country"". He is best known for his long-running Matt Helm series (1960-1993), which chronicles the adventures of an undercover counter-agent/assassin working for a secret American government agency. The noted critic Anthony Boucher wrote: ""Donald Hamilton has brought to the spy novel the authentic hard realism of Dashiell Hammett; and his stories are as compelling, and"
"John"" (1910). Novels featuring a gentleman adventurer were popular between the wars, exemplified by the series of H. C. McNeile with ""Bulldog Drummond"" (1920), and Leslie Charteris, whose many books chronicled the adventures of Simon Templar, alias ""The Saint"". The medieval scholar M. R. James wrote highly regarded ghost stories in contemporary settings. This was called 'the Golden Age of Detective Fiction'. Dame Agatha Christie, a writer of crime novels, short stories and plays, is best remembered for her 80 detective novels and her successful West End theatre plays. Other female writers dubbed ""Queens of crime"" include Dorothy L. Sayers"
"introduced Johnny Fedora, the secret agent with a licence to kill, the government-sanctioned assassin. Ian Fleming, a former member of naval intelligence, followed swiftly with the glamorous James Bond, secret agent 007 of the British Secret Service, a mixture of counter-intelligence officer, assassin and playboy. Perhaps the most famous fictional spy, Bond was introduced in ""Casino Royale"" (1953). After Fleming's death the franchise continued under other British and American authors, including Kingsley Amis, Christopher Wood, John Gardner, Raymond Benson, Sebastian Faulks, Jeffery Deaver and William Boyd. Despite the commercial success of Fleming's extravagant novels, John le Carré, himself a former"
"George Goodchild George Goodchild (1888–1969) aka Alan Dare, Wallace Q. Reid, and Jesse Templeton, was a prolific and successful British writer of popular books, short stories, plays, and movies (e.g. 1921 ""Colorado Jim"" filmed as ""Colorado Jack""), who published over 200 works in his 60-year career, and beyond his lifetime. Books are still re-issued, mostly in large print for older readers. Featured characters include Inspector McLean, spy catcher Q33 Trelawney, Nigel Rix, and Trooper O'Neill (1932 film). He wrote and directed films based on books and stories, including ""Colorado Jack"" (1921), ""Bucking the Barrier"" (1923), ""The Public Defender"" (1931), ""Condemned"
"of Bond in a different way. James Bond (literary character) Commander James Bond, CMG, RNVR, is a fictional character created by the British journalist and novelist Ian Fleming in 1953. He is the protagonist of the ""James Bond"" series of novels, films, comics and video games. Fleming wrote twelve Bond novels and two short story collections. His final two books—""The Man with the Golden Gun"" (1965) and ""Octopussy and The Living Daylights"" (1966)—were published posthumously. The Bond character is a Secret Service agent, code number 007, residing in London but active internationally. Bond was a composite character who was based"
"member of the First Internationale and opponent of Marxist ideology. Perhaps the most famous Pole to settle in the UK at the end of the 19th-century, having gained British citizenship in 1886, was the seafarer turned early modernist novelist, Józef Korzeniowski, better known by his pen name, Joseph Conrad. He was the highly influential author of such works as ""Almayer's Folly"", ""The Nigger of the 'Narcissus'"", ""Heart of Darkness"", ""Lord Jim"", ""Nostromo"", ""The Secret Agent"", ""The Duel"", ""Under Western Eyes"", and ""Victory"", many of which have been turned into films. At the end of the 19th-c. London, along with Zurich"
"the code number of Ian Fleming's fictional detective James Bond, but no connection is known. Includes "".007."" .007 "".007"" (originally subtitled ""The Story of an American Locomotive"") is a short story by Rudyard Kipling. It is a story in which steam locomotives are characters ("".007"" is the serial number of the protagonist), somewhat like the later, better-known tales of ""The Railway Series"" by Wilbert Awdry and his son. The story first appeared in ""Scribner's Magazine"" in August 1897, and was collected with other Kipling stories in ""The Day's Work"" (1898). The locomotives themselves have personalities and talk in a manner"
"James Bond (literary character) Commander James Bond, CMG, RNVR, is a fictional character created by the British journalist and novelist Ian Fleming in 1953. He is the protagonist of the ""James Bond"" series of novels, films, comics and video games. Fleming wrote twelve Bond novels and two short story collections. His final two books—""The Man with the Golden Gun"" (1965) and ""Octopussy and The Living Daylights"" (1966)—were published posthumously. The Bond character is a Secret Service agent, code number 007, residing in London but active internationally. Bond was a composite character who was based on a number of commandos whom"
"lower middle class in novels like ""Kipps"" (1905) and ""The History of Mr Polly"" (1910). The major novelists writing in Britain at the start of the 20th century were an Irishman James Joyce (1882–1941) and two immigrants, American Henry James (1843–1916) and Pole Joseph Conrad (1857–1924). The modernist tradition in the novel, with its emphasis ""towards the ever more minute and analytic exposition of mental life"", begins with James and Conrad, in novels such as ""The Ambassadors"" (1903), ""The Golden Bowl"" (1907) and ""Lord Jim"" (1900). Other important early modernists were Dorothy Richardson (1873–1957), whose novel ""Pointed Roof"" (1915), is"
"Henry James Henry James, OM ( – ) was an American-British author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language. He was the son of Henry James Sr. and the brother of renowned philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James. He is best known for a number of novels dealing with the social and marital interplay between emigre Americans, English people, and continental Europeans – examples of such novels include ""The Portrait of a Lady"", ""The Ambassadors"", and ""The"
"writers include Brad Thor, ""The Lions of Lucerne"" (2002); Ted Bell, ""Hawke"" (2003); Alex Berenson, with John Wells appearing for the first time in ""The Faithful Spy"" (2006); Brett Battles, ""The Cleaner"" (2007); Ellis Goodman, ""Bear Any Burden"" (2008); Olen Steinhauer, ""The Tourist"" (2009); and Richard Ferguson, ""Oiorpata"" (2012). A number of other established writers began to write spy fiction for the first time, including Kyle Mills, ""Fade"" (2005) and James Patterson, ""Private"" (2010). Swede Stieg Larsson, who died in 2004, was the world's second best-selling author for 2008 due to his ""Millennium series"", featuring Lisbeth Salander, published posthumously between"
"The Secret Seven (Frank Richards) The Secret Seven series is an 11 part series of stories published in The Magnet magazine in 1934. The author was prolific writer Charles Hamilton, writing under the pen name Frank Richards. The series was republished by the Howard Baker (Greyfriars Press) as two volumes of Magnet facsimile editions in 1976. The stories are set in the fictional Greyfriars School. Venerable and respected Headmaster Dr. Locke, along with popular Head Prefect George Wingate and several other senior prefects, are all hospitalised after a road accident. Portly and pompous Fifth Form master Mr Prout is appointed"
"March 1857. They were sentenced to transportation for 14 years and sent to Australia. In his play, ""Jim the Penman"" (1886), British baronet, barrister and playwright Sir Charles Young, 7th Baronet expanded the scope of the fictional version of Saward, making him a leader of an international forgery ring who forged letters to marry into high society. The play was later adapted into two films, in 1915 with John B. Mason, and in 1921 with Lionel Barrymore playing Saward. Saward is often regarded as an inspiration for the character Professor Moriarty in Arthur Conan Doyle's ""Sherlock Holmes"" series. James Townsend"
"Mr. Frank, the Underground Mail-Agent Mr. Frank, the Underground Mail-Agent is an 1853 parody novel written by an unknown author credited as ""Vidi"". ""Mr. Frank"" is an example of the pro-slavery plantation literature genre that emerged from the Southern United States in response to the abolitionist novel ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"" in 1852, which was criticised in the South for its negative portrayal of plantation life. However, whereas the majority of such anti-Tom novels were direct attacks on ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"", ""Mr. Frank"" instead chooses to parody the events of Stowe's novel rather than serve as an antithesis to her work."
"Secret Agent (1936 film) Secret Agent is a 1936 British film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, loosely based on two stories in """" by W. Somerset Maugham. The film starred Madeleine Carroll, Peter Lorre, John Gielgud, and Robert Young. Future star Michael Redgrave made a brief, uncredited appearance; he would play the male lead in Hitchcock's ""The Lady Vanishes"" (1938). The work was also Michael Rennie's film debut (though an uncredited one). Typical Hitchcockian themes used in ""Secret Agent"" include mistaken identity and murder. On 10 May 1916, during the First World War, British Captain and novelist Edgar Brodie (Gielgud) returns"
"blow and largely remained a recluse to the end of his life. He died on 6 November 2001 aged 84. O. F. Snelling O. F. Snelling (30 December 1916 – 6 November 2001) was an author and auctioneer clerk in the antiquarian book trade. Oswald Frederick Snelling is best known for his 1964 bestseller, ""Double O Seven, James Bond, A Report"", and is also noted for his books and articles on boxing and British thriller writers. Snelling began his working life as an illustrator of books. After serving in the British Army in World War II, he wrote book reviews,"
"under the pseudonym Evelyn Elder. Kennedy specialised in police mysteries, but also wrote about the adventures of Sir George Bull, a professional private investigator. He also collaborated with other members of The Detection Club on ""The Floating Admiral"" and ""Ask a Policeman"". His series characters are Sir George Bull and Inspector Cornford. Milward Kennedy Milward Rodon Kennedy Burge (21 June 1894 – 1968) was an English civil servant, journalist, crime writer and literary critic. He was educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford. He served with British Military Intelligence in World War I and then worked for the International"
"was directed by Campion Bond (James Bond's grandfather), who served under a master called M. This M was later revealed to be none other than James Moriarty in disguise, using the League to win a gang war against Fu Manchu. After the death of Moriarty, Sherlock Holmes's older brother Mycroft Holmes assumed the role of M. In the sequel volume """", set during a moribund and dystopian 1950s post-war Britain, the head of the British secret service, M, is Harry Lime, from Graham Greene's ""The Third Man"". In the final volume of """", spanning from 1910 to 2009, the M"
"""Moscow Club"" (1991) by Joseph Finder, ""Coyote Bird"" (1993) by Jim DeFelice, ""Masquerade"" (1996) by Gayle Lynds, and ""The Unlikely Spy"" (1996) by Daniel Silva maintained the spy novel in the post–Cold War world. Other important American authors who first became active in spy fiction during this period include David Ignatius, ""Agents of Innocence"" (1997); David Baldacci, ""Saving Faith"" (1999); and Vince Flynn, with ""Term Limits"" (1999) and a series of novels featuring counter-terrorism expert Mitch Rapp. In the UK, Robert Harris entered the spy genre with ""Enigma"" (1995). Other important British authors who became active during this period include"