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Secret Agent by Joseph. Conrad (Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherBarnes & Noble, Incorporated

ISBN-100760783217

ISBN-139780760783214

eBay Product ID (ePID)72577168

Product Key Features

TopicPolitical

Book TitleSecret Agent

Number of PagesXxiii, 247 Pages

LanguageEnglish

GenreFiction

AuthorJoseph. Conrad

FormatHardcover

Additional Product Features

LCCN2008-299509

Dewey Edition23

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Decimal823/.912

SynopsisInspired 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., The Secret Agent is the unsurpassed ancestor of a long series of twentieth-century novels andfilms which explore the confused motives that lie at the heart of political terrorism. In its use of powerful psychological insight to intensify narrative suspense, it set the terms by which subsequent works in its genre were created. 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 the guilty and innocent alike.Introduction by Paul Theroux

LC Classification NumberPR6005.O4S4 2006