The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale
Joseph Conrad$15.30
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Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time Edited and with Notes by Peter Lancelot Mallios
Introduction by Robert D. Kaplan In reexamining The Secret Agent in a post-9/11 world, Robert D. Kaplan praises Joseph Conrad's "surgical insight into the mechanics of terrorism," calling the book "a fine example of how a savvy novelist may detect the future long before a social scientist does." This intense 1907 thriller-a precursor to works by Graham Greene and John le Carr -concerns a British double agent who infiltrates a cabal of anarchists. Conrad explores political and criminal intrigue in a modern society, building to a climax that the critic F. R. Leavis deemed "one of the most astonishing triumphs of genius in fiction."
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 12/14/2004
ISBN: 9780812973051
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.08h x 5.24w x 0.78d
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 70610 / Secret Agent
Reading Level: 9.4 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 17
Introduction by Robert D. Kaplan In reexamining The Secret Agent in a post-9/11 world, Robert D. Kaplan praises Joseph Conrad's "surgical insight into the mechanics of terrorism," calling the book "a fine example of how a savvy novelist may detect the future long before a social scientist does." This intense 1907 thriller-a precursor to works by Graham Greene and John le Carr -concerns a British double agent who infiltrates a cabal of anarchists. Conrad explores political and criminal intrigue in a modern society, building to a climax that the critic F. R. Leavis deemed "one of the most astonishing triumphs of genius in fiction."
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 12/14/2004
ISBN: 9780812973051
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.08h x 5.24w x 0.78d
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 70610 / Secret Agent
Reading Level: 9.4 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 17