Who wrote the novel 'The Secret Agent', first published in 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"
"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,"
"Secret Agent (1947 film) Secret Agent ""("", translit. ""Podvig razvedchika"") is a 1947 Soviet spy film directed by Boris Barnet and based on the novel ""The Deed Remains Unknown"" () by Mikhail Maklyarsky. The film stars Pavel Kadochnikov in the leading role. ""Secret Agent"" is also known as ""Secret Mission"", ""Secrets of Counter-Espionage"", ""The Scout's Exploit"". It was the first film about the actions of Soviet intelligence officers behind enemy lines in World War II. The film originated the spy genre in Soviet cinema and had a great influence on all subsequent Soviet spy films, including ""Seventeen Moments of Spring""."
"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"
"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"
"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"
"The Secret Servant (Silva novel) The Secret Servant is a 2007 spy novel by Daniel Silva. It spent six weeks as a New York Times Bestseller. In this entry in the series, Gabriel Allon, the master art restorer and sometime officer of Israeli intelligence, had just prevailed in his blood-soaked duel with Saudi terrorist financier Zizi al-Bakari. Now Gabriel is summoned once more by his masters to undertake what appears to be a routine assignment: travel to Amsterdam to purge the archives of a murdered Dutch terrorism analyst who also happened to be an asset of Israeli intelligence. But once"
"The Secret Woman (novel) The Secret Woman is a Gothic romance and suspense novel written by English author Eleanor Hibbert under the pseudonym Victoria Holt. It was originally published in 1970 and is considered to be a bestseller. Set in 1887, it chronicles Anna Brett's scandalous romance with the married ship captain Redvers Stretton. As they sail across the South Seas, tensions build among Anna, Redvers, and everyone else on-board ""The Serene Lady"", and a mystery involving murder, the destruction of ship called ""The Secret Woman"", and a missing fortune of diamonds begins to unravel. Anna Brett was born in"
"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 missing woman as the clock ticks steadily toward the hour of her execution. Portuguese: ""O Criado Secreto"". (""The Secret Servant""). (2008). The Secret Servant (Silva novel) The Secret Servant is a 2007 spy novel by Daniel Silva. It spent six weeks as a New York Times Bestseller. In this entry in the series, Gabriel Allon, the master art restorer and sometime officer of Israeli intelligence, had just prevailed in his blood-soaked duel with Saudi terrorist financier Zizi al-Bakari. Now Gabriel is summoned once more by his masters to undertake what appears to be a routine assignment: travel to Amsterdam"
"""The French Lieutenant’s Woman."" The book's success was likely also bolstered by the success of Hibbert's previous novels such as ""Mistress of Mellyn"" and ""The Shivering Sands"". The positive reception of these works eventually gave Hibbert the title of “Queen of Romantic Suspense” and driving the sales of Victoria Holt novels to over 56 million copies worldwide. The Secret Woman (novel) The Secret Woman is a Gothic romance and suspense novel written by English author Eleanor Hibbert under the pseudonym Victoria Holt. It was originally published in 1970 and is considered to be a bestseller. Set in 1887, it chronicles"
"voted the fifth best British film of 1936. It currently has a 90% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with Geoff Andrew of ""Time Out"" writing, ""This thriller may not be one of Hitchcock's best English films, but it is full of startling set pieces and quirky characterisation."" 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"
"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"
"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,"
"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"
"The Secret Lovers (novel) The Secret Lovers, published by E.P. Dutton in 1977, was the third of seven novels by the American novelist Charles McCarry to feature an American intelligence agent named Paul Christopher. It takes place in 1960 and '61, a year after the events in the first Christopher novel, ""The Miernik Dossier"", published in 1973, and three years before the beginning of ""The Tears of Autumn"", published in 1974, which was actually the second book McCarry wrote about Christopher. Later books by McCarry, ten in all as of 2013, expanded from focusing solely on Christopher into what might"
"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"
"Agent Counter-Agent Agent Counter-Agent is the seventy-eighth novel in the Nick Carter-Killmaster series of spy novels., Carter is a US secret agent, code-named N-3, with the rank of Killmaster. He works for AXE – a secret arm of the US intelligence services. The book was first published in 1973 by Award-Tandem Books (Number AN1147) by Universal Publishing and Distributing Corporation (New York, USA) and Universal-Tandem Publishing Co. Ltd. (London, England). The novel was written by Ralph Eugene Hayes., Copyright was registered on 15 July 1973. The story is set in April, presumably in 1973. A threat is made to assassinate"
"many smiling faces as the Greyfriars fellows march out of the Hall. 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"
"The Secret Garden The Secret Garden is a children's novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett first published in book form in 1911 following the publication in 1910 of a serial version in a US magazine. Set in England, it is one of Burnett's most popular novels and is considered a classic of English children's literature. Several stage and film adaptations have been made. The American edition was published by Stokes with illustrations by Maria Louise Kirk (signed as M. L. Kirk) and the British edition by Heinemann with illustrations by Charles Heath Robinson. At the turn of the 20th century, Mary"
"and HTML illustrated) The Secret Garden The Secret Garden is a children's novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett first published in book form in 1911 following the publication in 1910 of a serial version in a US magazine. Set in England, it is one of Burnett's most popular novels and is considered a classic of English children's literature. Several stage and film adaptations have been made. The American edition was published by Stokes with illustrations by Maria Louise Kirk (signed as M. L. Kirk) and the British edition by Heinemann with illustrations by Charles Heath Robinson. At the turn of the"
"Sole Agent Sole Agent is a spy novel by Kenneth Benton set in Lisbon during the Cold War in the 1970s. Overseas Police Adviser Peter Craig, on a cruise bound for Naples, stops in Lisbon to catch up with Ferreira, a former colleague who now runs a department of the PIDE security service. Craig calls at the British Embassy to announce his visit and is introduced to Simon Dickens, Head of Chancery. Dickens takes Craig into his confidence and explains that the Amanda, daughter of the Embassy's Defence Attache has recently gone missing, and asks for his help in finding"
"in the US (the other being ""The Secret Adversary""). The copyright on the book will not expire in some Western countries before 2047. The Mysterious Affair at Styles The Mysterious Affair at Styles is a detective novel by British writer Agatha Christie. It was written in the middle of the First World War, in 1916, and first published by John Lane in the United States in October 1920 and in the United Kingdom by The Bodley Head (John Lane's UK company) on 21 January 1921. ""Styles"" was Christie's first published novel. It introduced Hercule Poirot, Inspector (later, Chief Inspector) Japp,"
"in the [fictional] San Tomé [silver] mine."" ""The Secret Agent"" (completed 1906) was inspired by the French anarchist Martial Bourdin's 1894 death while apparently attempting to blow up the Greenwich Observatory. Conrad's story ""The Secret Sharer"" (completed 1909) was inspired by an 1880 incident when Sydney Smith, first mate of the ""Cutty Sark"", had killed a seaman and fled from justice, aided by the ship's captain. The plot of ""Under Western Eyes"" (completed 1910) is kicked off by the assassination of a brutal Russian government minister, modelled after the real-life 1904 assassination of Russian Minister of the Interior Vyacheslav von"
"The Notting Hill Mystery The Notting Hill Mystery (1862–63) is an English-language detective novel written under the pseudonym ""Charles Felix"", with illustrations by George du Maurier. The author's identity was never formally revealed in his lifetime, but several critics have since suggested Charles Warren Adams (1833–1903), a lawyer known to have written other novels under pseudonyms. It is arguably regarded as the very first detective novel in the English language. ""The Notting Hill Mystery"" was first published as an eight-part serial in ""Once A Week"" magazine beginning on 29 November 1862, then as a single-volume novel in 1865 by Saunders,"
"The Code (Killmaster novel) The Code is the seventy-seventh novel in the Nick Carter-Killmaster series of spy novels., Carter is a US secret agent, code-named N-3, with the rank of Killmaster. He works for AXE – a secret arm of the US intelligence services. The book was first published in 1973 by Award-Tandem Books (Number AN1146) by Universal Publishing and Distributing Corporation (New York, USA) and Universal-Tandem Publishing Co. Ltd. (London, England). The novel was written by Larry Powell. Copyright was registered on 15 July 1973. The story is set in late spring/summer 1973. Carter’s AXE colleague is murdered whilst"
"to intimidate him, he sneaks up behind them and pushes them into the quivering pile, escaping while they fight to extricate themselves from its gelatinous embrace. The Chinese Agent The Chinese Agent (1970) is a comic novel by Michael Moorcock. It is a revision of ""Somewhere in the Night"", which Moorcock published in 1966 under the pseudonym Bill Barclay. Although Moorcock is best known as the author of fantasy fiction and science fiction-based parables such as ""Behold the Man"" and ""The Dancers at the End of Time"", here he writes a light-hearted caper that parodies the spy novel genre. ""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 Adversary The Secret Adversary is the second published detective fiction novel by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in January 1922 in the United Kingdom by The Bodley Head and in the United States by Dodd, Mead and Company later in that same year. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) and the US edition at $1.75. The book introduces the characters of Tommy and Tuppence who feature in three other Christie novels and one collection of short stories; the five Tommy and Tuppence books span Agatha Christie's writing career. The Great War is over,"
"The Mystery of the Yellow Room The Mystery of the Yellow Room (in French ""Le mystère de la chambre jaune"") is a mystery novel written by French author Gaston Leroux. One of the first locked-room mystery novels, it was first published serially in France in the periodical ""L'Illustration"" from September 1907 to November 1907, then in its own right in 1908. It is the first novel starring fictional reporter Joseph Rouletabille and concerns a complex, and seemingly impossible, crime in which the criminal appears to disappear from a locked room. Leroux provides the reader with detailed, precise diagrams and floorplans"
"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 Secret of the League The Secret of the League is a 1907 dystopian novel by Ernest Bramah, which describes the overthrow of a democratically elected British Labour Party Government through a carefully prepared plot by members of the upper classes, and depicts such an overthrow as being a positive and desirable outcome. George Orwell credited the book with having given a considerably accurate prediction of the rise of Fascism, and also with reflecting ""the mentality of the middle classes"" and the brutal measures which members of these classes might condone or actively support, should they feel threatened with a"
"Confidential Agent Confidential Agent is a 1945 American spy film starring Charles Boyer and Lauren Bacall which was a Warner Brothers production. The movie was directed by Herman Shumlin and produced by Robert Buckner with Jack L. Warner as executive producer. The screenplay was by Robert Buckner, based on the novel ""The Confidential Agent"" by Graham Greene. The music score was by Franz Waxman and the cinematography by James Wong Howe. The supporting cast includes George Coulouris and Peter Lorre. In the midst of the Spanish Civil War, Luis Denard (Charles Boyer), a former concert pianist and composer, travels to"