The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale

Conrad, Joseph

ISBN 10: 0812973054 / ISBN 13: 9780812973051

Editore: Penguin Random House LLC (No Starch), 2004

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Titolo: The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale

Casa editrice: Penguin Random House LLC (No Starch)

Data di pubblicazione: 2004

Legatura: Paperback

Condizione: Good

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Riassunto:

Conrad's 1907 thriller about terrorism and the London police follows an anarchist whose desolation and despair leads to an attempt to destroy the Greenwich Observatory. Reader's Guide included. Reprint.

Recensione:

“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