Abstract
The Secret Agent was first published three years after Nostromo, and if you come to it from that earlier novel you will already have encountered Conrad’s curious way of telling stories. The basic story is, in fact, fairly straightforward, but the narration jumps back and forth in time so that we have to keep our wits about us as we read. Once again this factor makes reading the novel both a more difficult and a more exciting experience than it would be if events were described in simple chronological order: there is a wonderful sense of achievement when you have grasped all the complexities of a Conrad novel.
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