The Secret Agent Resources

WEBSITES

The Joseph Conrad Society

Check out the official website of an entire society of people dedicated to celebrating the work of Joseph Conrad.

Conrad's Works

This website contains links to a whole bunch of Conrad's work, which is now public domain and totally free.

MOVIE OR TV PRODUCTIONS

The Secret Agent (1996), Directed by Christopher Hampton

Starring a young Christian Bale as Stevie!

BBC's The Secret Agent, 1992

Yup, the BBC was all over this book back in '92.

BBC's The Secret Agent, 1967

They did one in '67, too.

ARTICLES AND INTERVIEWS

Coldewey's Curiosities on The Secret Agent

Great little article offering impressions on reading Conrad's masterpiece

Conrad Interview (December 1919)

Hugh Walpole gives us a very in-depth and intimate portrait of the man behind The Secret Agent.

VIDEO

Book Trailer

Some students got together and made a trailer for The Secret Agent. Here's how it turned out.

Boom! On the Big Screen

The trailer for the 1996 film adaptation, with a star-studded cast.

AUDIO

Free Audio Book of The Secret Agent

Are your eyes tired from all that reading? Well take a break if you like and listen to the free (!) audio version of The Secret Agent.

IMAGES

Older Conrad

Here's a photo of Conrad lookin' pretty distinguished in his later years.

First U.S. Edition Cover

Here's what The Secret Agent would have looked like on American bookshelves when it first came out.

Another Cover

Here's a great rendering of a book cover for The Secret Agent.

The Greenwich Observatory

Here's a shot of the observatory, taken from the park that Stevie would've been walking through when he tripped.

The Professor, played by… Robin Williams?

Yep, that's who played the lunatic bomber in the 1996 movie.