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The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780812973051)
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xSelected 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."
Author: Joseph Conrad
ISBN-10: 0812973054
ISBN-13: 9780812973051
Publisher: Penguin Random House LLC (No Starch)
Language: English
Published: 12/14/2004
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.08h x 5.24w x 0.78d
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 9.4
Point Value: 17
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 70610 / Secret Agent
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."
Author: Joseph Conrad
ISBN-10: 0812973054
ISBN-13: 9780812973051
Publisher: Penguin Random House LLC (No Starch)
Language: English
Published: 12/14/2004
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.08h x 5.24w x 0.78d
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 9.4
Point Value: 17
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 70610 / Secret Agent
By Joseph Conrad
xJoseph Conrad (1857-1924) grew up amid political unrest in Russian-occupied Poland. After twenty years at sea with the French and British merchant navies, he settled in England in 1894. Over the next three decades he revolutionized the English novel with works such as Typhoon (1902), Youth (1902), Nostromo (1904), The Secret Agent (1907), Under Western Eyes (1911), Chance (1913), and Victory (1915).
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