The Secret Agent (Paperback)
Language: English
Published by WW Norton & Co, New York, 2016
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Paperback. This Norton Critical Edition includes: - The first English book edition of the novel (1907), accompanied by explanatory footnotes. - Four illustrations. - Contemporary sources that informed Conrad's writing of the novel, including newspaper accounts of the "Greenwich Bomb Outrage," articles from the anarchist press, earlier fictional treatments of the Martial Bourdin case (the inspiration for Adolph Verloc), and important texts related to anarchism and fin-de-siecle culture. - Seven wide-ranging critical essays by Ian Watt, Terry Eagleton, Martin Ray, Hugh Epstein, Gail Fincham, Peter Lancelot Mallios, and Michael Newton. - A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography. [A] masterly study of the inner workings of the disordered minds whose aim is destruction, violence, and the overturning of law and order by means of bombs.The Observer (1907) Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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- Title
- The Secret Agent (Paperback)
- Author
- Joseph Conrad
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co, New York
- Publication year
- 2016
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0393937445
- ISBN 13
- 9780393937442
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Series
- Book 23 of 52: Norton Critical Editions
“[A] masterly study of the inner workings of the disordered minds whose aim is destruction, violence, and the overturning of law and order by means of bombs.” ―The (London) Observer (1907)
This Norton Critical Edition includes:- The first English book edition of the novel (1907), accompanied by explanatory footnotes.
- Four illustrations.
- Contemporary sources that informed Conrad’s writing of the novel, including newspaper accounts of the “Greenwich Bomb Outrage,” articles from the anarchist press, earlier fictional treatments of the Martial Bourdin case (the inspiration for
Adolph Verloc), and important texts related to anarchism and fin-de-siècle culture.
- Seven wide-ranging critical essays by Ian Watt, Terry Eagleton, Martin Ray, Hugh Epstein, Gail Fincham, Peter Lancelot Mallios, and Michael Newton.
- A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography.
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About the Author
Richard Niland is Lecturer in English at the University of Strathclyde. He is the author of Conrad and History and is a contributor to The New Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad. He is the editor of Joseph Conrad, The Contemporary Reviews, Volume 3 (Cambridge University Press).
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