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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Barnes & Noble
Publication date
March 1, 2007
Pages
286
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9781593083052
ISBN-10
159308305X
Dimensions
1 by 5.25 by 7.75 in.
Weight
0.70 lbs.
Original list price
$8.95
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Summaries and Reviews
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The Secret Agent, by Joseph Conrad, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
- New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars
- Biographies of the authors
- Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events
- Footnotes and endnotes
- Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work
- Comments by other famous authors
- Study questions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectations
- Bibliographies for further reading
- Indices & Glossaries, when appropriate
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Set in early twentieth-century London and inspired by an actual attempt to blow up the Greenwich Observatory, The Secret Agent is a complex exploration of motivation and morality. The title character, Adolf Verloc, is obviously no James Bond. In fact, he and his circle of misfit saboteurs are not spies but terrorists, driven less by political ideals than by their unruly emotions and irrational hatreds.
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Verloc has settled into an apparent marriage of convenience. Family life gives him a respectable cover, while his wife hopes to get help in handling her halfwit brother, Stevie. Instead Verloc involves Stevie in one of his explosive schemes, an act that leads to violence, murder, and revenge.
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Darkly comic, the novel is also obliquely autobiographical: Joseph Conradâs parents were involved in the radical politics of their time, and their early deaths left him profoundly distrustful of any sort of political action.
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Verloc has settled into an apparent marriage of convenience. Family life gives him a respectable cover, while his wife hopes to get help in handling her halfwit brother, Stevie. Instead Verloc involves Stevie in one of his explosive schemes, an act that leads to violence, murder, and revenge.
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Darkly comic, the novel is also obliquely autobiographical: Joseph Conradâs parents were involved in the radical politics of their time, and their early deaths left him profoundly distrustful of any sort of political action.
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Steven Marcus is Professor of English and Comparative Literature and George Delacorte Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University, and a specialist in nineteenth-century literature and culture. He is the author of more than 200 publications.
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