| The Secret Agent Contributor(s): Conrad, Joseph (Author), Doctorow, E. L. (Introduction by), Romanick Baldwin, Debra (Afterword by) |
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ISBN: 0451474295 ISBN-13: 9780451474292 Publisher: Signet Book OUR PRICE: $6.26 Product Type: Mass Market Paperbound - Other Formats Published: August 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Thrillers - Suspense - Fiction | Historical - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 4.2" W x 6.7" (0.3 lbs) 288 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 70610 Reading Level: 9.4 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 17.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This chillingly prophetic examination of terrorism by the author of Heart of Darkness is the literary precursor to the espionage thrillers of Graham Greene and John Le Carr . Inspired by an actual attempt to blow up the Greenwich Observatory, The Secret Agent portrays the world of late-nineteenth-century London, with its fatuous civil servants, corrupt police, and squalid underworld characters like Verloc, a pornographer acting as a government informant. Verloc's assignment is to provoke the radicals whose group he has penetrated into committing an act of such violence that they will be discredited and their appeal to the masses destroyed. With its questionable characters and amoral caricatures, the novel is as much a black satire of English society as a frightening mirror of the present day. With an Introduction by E. L. Doctorow and a New Afterword by Debra Romanick Baldwin |