The Secret Agent: Introduction by Paul Theroux (Everyman's Library Classics) - Hardcover

Conrad, Joseph

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679417230 ISBN 13: 9780679417231

Publisher: Everyman's Library, 1992

Synopsis

This new edition of Conrad's compelling tale of espionage and terrorism set in Edwardian London is based on a painstaking comparison of the original manuscript of the work with its first, truncated appearance, and with all subsequent book form publications overseen by Conrad himself. The result is this new text, purged of printers' errors and editorial interventions. Included are a critical introduction, an essay on the text itself, a textual apparatus, and helpul explanatory notes.

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Review:

"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

Book Description:

'Spookily topical' - Guardian

About this edition

• Publisher: Everyman's Library
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0679417230
• ISBN 13: 9780679417231
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320