Synopsis
From the seed of an actual attempt to blow up the Greenwich Observatory, this book recreates the world of the secret agent. The world of law and order is mirrored in its underworld, a squalid terrorist landscape inhabited by, among others, the professor, who carries a bomb in his pocket.
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"Perenially fascinating... When Joseph Conrad wrote The Secret Agent he was responding imaginatively to a real botched bomb attack on Greenwich, at a time when there was real panic about anarchist extremism throughout Europe" (Guardian)
"An astonishing book" (Ford Madox Ford)
"This damp, dark thriller dances about on satirical feet, from its opening paragraph to the very last, where it suddenly plunges like Chernobyl's core to our own apocalyptic times, seamed with petit-bourgeois envy and crazed fundamentalist dreams. Whether attacking the former or the latter, Conrad never lets go of his grim, twitchy smile." (Adam Thorpe Guardian)
"One of the two unquestionable classics of the first order that [Conrad] added to the English novel" (F.R. Leavis)
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'Spookily topical' - Guardian
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paperback. No Jacket. New York. 1983. November 1983. Signet/New American Library. 2nd Printing of This Signet Classic Edition. Very Good in Wrappers With A Tear Mark From A Price Sticker on The Front Cover. 0451518047. Introduction By Frederick R. Karl. 240 pages. paperback. CE1804. keywords: Signet Classic Europe England Literature World Literature. DESCRIPTION - This extraordinary novel by one of the greatest of storytellers is both a chillingly prophetic examination of terrorism and the literary precursor of the espionage thrillers of such writers as Graham Greene and John Le Carre. The scene is turn - of - the - century London. The characters include idealistic revolutionaries, ruthless ideologues, bureaucratic police, and at the center, an undercover, counter - revolutionary mole whose mission is to provoke the radical group he has penetrated into a monstrous act of violence that will bring about its own destruction. In this world of plot and counterplot, where identities are deceptions and glowing slogans mask savage realities, each character becomes an ever more helpless puppet of forces beyond control - until one woman's love, grief, and. anger rips through the entire fabric of the conspiracy with a passionate, profoundly human act. A key work of twentieth - century art and consciousness, THE SECRET AGENT is, in the words of critic F. R. Leavis in The Great Tradition, 'one of Conrad's supreme masterpieces. one of the unquestioned classics of the first order that he added to the English novel. inventory #31497 Very Good in Wrappers With A Tear Mark From A Price Sticker on The Front Cover. Seller Inventory # z31497
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