The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad, Fiction

Speaking of this novel, Conrad wrote, "The origin of The Secret Agent: subject, treatment, artistic purpose and every other motive that may induce an author to take up his pen, can, I believe, be traced to a period of mental and emotional reaction. The actual facts are that I began this book impulsively and wrote it continuously. When in due course it was bound and delivered to the public gaze I found myself reproved for having produced it at all. Some of the admonitions were severe, others had a sorrowful note. I have not got them textually before me but I remember perfectly the general argument, which was very simple; and also my surprise at its nature. All this sounds a very old story now And yet it is not such a long time ago. . . ."

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Wildside Press
Published: 03/01/2004
ISBN: 9780809594702
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.89lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.61d
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 70610 / Secret Agent
Reading Level: 9.4 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 17