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PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100679417230
ISBN-139780679417231
eBay Product ID (ePID)45472
Product Key Features
Book TitleSecret Agent : Introduction by Paul Theroux
Number of Pages320 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicPsychological, Classics, Thrillers / Political, Literary
Publication Year1992
GenreFiction
AuthorJoseph. Conrad
Book SeriesEveryman's Library Classics Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight16.4 Oz
Item Length8.3 in
Item Width5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN92-052924
Reviews" 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
Dewey Edition23
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Decimal823/.912
SynopsisInspired by an attempt in 1894 to blow up London's 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 Conrad's 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. Conrad's 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 region's moral terrain than his story of a terrorist plot and its tragic consequences for both the guilty and the innocent. Introduction by Paul Theroux (Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)., Inspired by an actual attempt in 1894 to blow up London's Greenwich Observatory, here is a chillingly prophetic examination of contemporary terrorism and the literary precursor to today's espionage thriller. Revised reissue., Inspired by an attempt in 1894 to blow up London's 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 Conrad's 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 Carr . Conrad's 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 region's moral terrain than his story of a terrorist plot and its tragic consequences for both the guilty and the innocent. Introduction by Paul Theroux (Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed).
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