Pub Date: December 1, 2007
Dewey: FIC
Lexile Code: 0000
Features: Bibliography, Maps, Price on Product - Canadian, Price on Product, Table of Contents
Target Age Group: 18 to UP
Physical Info: 0.75" H x 7.80" L x 5.16" W ( 0.53 lbs) 320 pages
BISAC Categories:
Fiction | Classics | Action and Adventure | Political | Mystery and Detective | Historical | Literary | General | Fantasy | Thrillers | Psychological
Series: Penguin Classics
Description: 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.
Review Quotes: "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."