# Dedication explained — The Secret Agent

> Chapter companion for The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad.

## What happens

The author affectionately dedicates the novel to H. G. Wells, acknowledging his works as chronicler of Mr. Lewisham's love, biographer of Kipps, and historian of ages to come, offering this simple tale of the 19th century.

## Key lines

> To H. G. Wells the chronicler of Mr. Lewisham's love the biographer of Kipps and the historian of the ages to come this simple tale of the XIX century is affectionately offered.

This book is lovingly dedicated to H. G. Wells, who wrote about Mr. Lewisham's romance, the life of Kipps, and future history, as a story set in the 1800s.

_The dedication acknowledges Wells's diverse literary contributions and frames the novel as a 19th-century tale._

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