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A novelist in 1906 who wished to write about deranged anarchists, bogus revolutionaries and madcap scientists, would have found it difficult to ignore the precedent which H.G. Wells had set in this field. Indeed, one could say that, during the previous decade, Wells had virtually monopolized such characters and made them his distinctive trademark. Is it for this reason that Joseph Conrad found it appropriate to dedicate The Secret Agent to H.G. Wells? One can find numerous analogues to The Secret Agent in the work of Wells; for instance, one could cite the apocalyptic vision of a threatened London in The War of the Worlds (1898), or the gruesome programme of eugenics which the Man on Putney Hill outlines in the same novel, and which is reminiscent of Conrad's Professor:
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A novelist in 1906 who wished to write about deranged anarchists, bogus revolutionaries and madcap scientists, would have found it difficult to ignore the precedent which H.G. Wells had set in this field. Indeed, one could say that, during the previous decade, Wells had virtually monopolized such characters and made them his distinctive trademark. Is it for this reason that Joseph Conrad found it appropriate to dedicate The Secret Agent to H.G. Wells? One can find numerous analogues to The Secret Agent in the work of Wells; for instance, one could cite the apocalyptic vision of a threatened London in The War of the Worlds (1898), or the gruesome programme of eugenics which the Man on Putney Hill outlines in the same novel, and which is reminiscent of Conrad's Professor:
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