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The Secret Agent is the unsurpassed ancestor of a long series of twentieth-century novels and films which explore the confused motives that lieat the heart of political terrorism. In its use of powerful psychological insight to intensify narrative suspens...
More >The Secret Agent is the unsurpassed ancestor of a long series of twentieth-century novels and films which explore the confused motives that lieat the heart of political terrorism. In its use of powerful psychological insight to intensify narrative suspense, it set the terms by which subsequentworks in its genre were created. Conrad was the first novelist to discover the strange in-between territory of the political exile, and his genius wassuch that we still have no truer map of that region's moral terrain than his story of a terrorist plot and its tragic consequences for the guilty and innocent alike.
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| File Size | 672.77 KB |
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| Publisher | Modern Library
Random House |
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| Publish Date | 12/31/1997 |
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| Print Pages | 272 |
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| Print ISBN | 0375752528 |
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| eBook ISBN | 0679641270 |
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| Print List Price | $ 10.95 |
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| eBook List Price | $ 4.95 |
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Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad, christened Josef Teodor Konrad, Nalecz Korzeniowski, was born on December 3, 1857, in a part of Russia that had once belonged to Poland. His parents were members of the landed gentry, but as ardent Polish patriots, the suffered considerably for their political vie...
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