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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Everymans Library
Publication date
December 1, 1992
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9780679417231
ISBN-10
0679417230
Dimensions
0.75 by 5.50 by 8.50 in.
Weight
1 lbs.
Published in
Great Britain
Original list price
$20.00
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Inspired by an attempt in 1894 to blow up Londonâs Greenwich Observatory, The Secret Agent is the unsurpassed original of the long tradition of espionage thrillers that explore the confused motives at the heart of terrorism. Published in 1907, Joseph Conradâs novel was remarkably prescient, anticipating the political contours of the next century, as well as the classic spy novels of such later writers as Graham Greene and John Le Carré.
Conradâs double agent, Verloc, is a Russian spy tasked with infiltrating an anarchist group in London. His mission to discredit the ineffectual radicals and their cause goes awry, and involves his unsuspecting wife and her vulnerable younger brother in disastrous ways. In its use of powerful psychological insight to intensify narrative suspense, The Secret Agent broke new literary ground. Conrad was the first novelist to discover the strange, in-between territory of the political exile, and his genius was such that we still have no truer map of that regionâs moral terrain than his story of a terrorist plot and its tragic consequences for both the guilty and the innocent.
Introduction by Paul Theroux
Conradâs double agent, Verloc, is a Russian spy tasked with infiltrating an anarchist group in London. His mission to discredit the ineffectual radicals and their cause goes awry, and involves his unsuspecting wife and her vulnerable younger brother in disastrous ways. In its use of powerful psychological insight to intensify narrative suspense, The Secret Agent broke new literary ground. Conrad was the first novelist to discover the strange, in-between territory of the political exile, and his genius was such that we still have no truer map of that regionâs moral terrain than his story of a terrorist plot and its tragic consequences for both the guilty and the innocent.
Introduction by Paul Theroux
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