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The Secret Agent : A Simple Tale (Modern Library Classics)
The Secret Agent A Simple Tale - Modern Library Classics Author:Joseph Conrad Edited and with Notes by Peter Lancelot Mallios — Introduction by Robert D. Kaplan — In reexamining The Secret Agent in a post-9/11 world, Robert D. Kaplan praises Joseph Conrad’s “surgical insight into the mechanics of terrorism,” calling the book “a fine example of how a savvy novelist may detect the future ... more »long before a social scientist does.”
This intense 1907 thriller–a precursor to works by Graham Greene and John le Carré–concerns a British double agent who infiltrates a cabal of anarchists. Conrad explores political and criminal intrigue in a modern society, building to a climax that the critic F. R. Leavis deemed “one of the most astonishing triumphs of genius in fiction.”« less