The secret agent
- Authors
- Conrad, Joseph
- Publisher
- Modern Library
- Tags
- literary , political , general , fiction - general , political fiction , classics , modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) , fiction , royal greenwich observatory , mystery , criticism , literature - classics , conspiracies , anarchists , radicalism , general & literary fiction , london (england) , bombings
- ISBN
- 9780812973051
- Date
- 1907-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.24 MB
- Lang
- en
****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 Carré–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.”