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The Secret Agent (Pocket Penguins)

The Secret Agent (Pocket Penguins)

by JosephConrad (Author)

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    Mass Market Paperback 2016

    $3.52
Synopsis

'The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket.' Set in an Edwardian London underworld of terrorist bombers, spies, grotesques and fanatics, Conrad's dark, unsettling masterpiece asks if we ever really know others, or ourselves. A new series of twenty distinctive, unforgettable Penguin Classics in a beautiful new design and pocket-sized format, with coloured jackets echoing Penguin's original covers.

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Format: Mass Market Paperback
 Pages: 320
 Edition: UK ed.
 Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 26 May 2016
ISBN 10: 0241259525
ISBN 13: 9780241259528

Media Reviews
The Secret Agent is an astonishing book. It is one of the best--and certainly the most significant--detective stories ever written. --Ford Madox Ford

The Secret Agent is an altogether thrilling 'crime story' . . . a political novel of a foreign embassy intrigue and its tragic human outcome. --Thomas Mann

One of Conrad's supreme masterpieces. --F. R. Leavis

[The Secret Agent] was in effect the world's first political thriller--spies, conspirators, wily policemen, murders, bombings . . . Conrad was also giving artistic expression to his domestic anxieties--his overweight wife and problem child, his lack of money, his inactivity, his discomfort in London, his uneasiness in English society, his sense of exile, of being an alien . . . The novel has the perverse logic and derangement of a dream.
--from the Introduction to the Everyman's Library edition by Paul Theroux

Author Bio
Joseph Conrad's major works (all published by Penguin Classics) include Heart of Darkness, Nostromo, Lord Jim,Under Western Eyes, The Secret Agent and Typhoon.