The Secret Agent
A Simple Tale
$33.34
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
14 December 2004
Summary
The Secret Agent
Introduction by Robert D. Kaplan
Edited, with Notes, A Note on the Text, and Bibliography by Prof. Peter Lancelot Mallios (U of Maryland)
Reading Group Guide Included
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time.
In his introduction, Robert D. Kaplan praises Joseph Conrad’s “surgical insight into the mechanics of terrorism,” calling The Secret Agent
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780812973051 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0812973054 |
| Author: | Joseph Conrad, Peter Mallios, Robert D. Kaplan |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Modern Library Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 14 December 2004 |
| Weight: | 262g |
| Dimensions: | 202mm x 132mm x 20mm |
| Series: | Modern Library 100 Best Novels |
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Critics Review
“The Secret Agent is an astonishing book. It is one of the best—and certainly the most significant—detective stories ever written.” —Ford Madox Ford“The Secret Agent is an altogether thrilling ‘crime story’ … a political novel of a foreign embassy intrigue and its tragic human outcome.” —Thomas Mann “One of Conrad’s supreme masterpieces.” —F. R. Leavis “[The Secret Agent] was in effect the world’s first political thriller—spies, conspirators, wily policemen, murders, bombings … Conrad was also giving artistic expression to his domestic anxieties—his overweight wife and problem child, his lack of money, his inactivity, his discomfort in London, his uneasiness in English society, his sense of exile, of being an alien … The novel has the perverse logic and derangement of a dream.”—from the Introduction to the Everyman’s Library edition by Paul Theroux
About The Author
Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) grew up amid political unrest in Russian-occupied Poland. After twenty years at sea with the French and British merchant navies, he settled in England in 1894. Over the next three decades he revolutionized the English novel with works such as Typhoon (1902), Youth (1902), Nostromo (1904), The Secret Agent (1907), Under Western Eyes (1911), Chance (1913), and Victory (1915).
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