The Secret Agent
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In the fog-laden, gaslit streets of late Victorian London, a seemingly unremarkable shopkeeper named Adolf Verloc leads a double life as a secret agent embedded within a cell of foreign anarchists — until a catastrophic act of terrorism tears apart everything he sought to protect. Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent, first published in 1907, is a masterwork of political suspense that chronicles the moral collapse of individuals caught between the machinery of the state and the chaos of radical ideology. With razor-sharp irony, Conrad presents a London teeming with conspirators, cynical diplomats, and hapless revolutionaries, all rendered with a cool, almost clinical detachment that makes their eventual destruction feel both inevitable and devastating. Widely regarded as one of the first great political thrillers in the English language, The Secret Agent stands as a prescient meditation on terrorism, surveillance, and the corrosive nature of ideological fanaticism — themes that resonate with startling force in the modern world. Conrad's prose is dense and deliberate, layering dark comedy atop genuine tragedy to produce an atmosphere of suffocating moral ambiguity. The novel's unforgettable cast — from the enigmatic Mr. Vladimir to the heartbreaking Stevie — illustrates how ordinary lives are sacrificed on the altar of political abstraction. For those who think they know where Conrad's labyrinthine plot is heading, the final pages guarantee a profound and unsettling surprise.
Author: Joseph Conrad
Format: Paperback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In the fog-laden, gaslit streets of late Victorian London, a seemingly unremarkable shopkeeper named Adolf Verloc leads a double life as a secret agent embedded within a cell of foreign anarchists — until a catastrophic act of terrorism tears apart everything he sought to protect. Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent, first published in 1907, is a masterwork of political suspense that chronicles the moral collapse of individuals caught between the machinery of the state and the chaos of radical ideology. With razor-sharp irony, Conrad presents a London teeming with conspirators, cynical diplomats, and hapless revolutionaries, all rendered with a cool, almost clinical detachment that makes their eventual destruction feel both inevitable and devastating. Widely regarded as one of the first great political thrillers in the English language, The Secret Agent stands as a prescient meditation on terrorism, surveillance, and the corrosive nature of ideological fanaticism — themes that resonate with startling force in the modern world. Conrad's prose is dense and deliberate, layering dark comedy atop genuine tragedy to produce an atmosphere of suffocating moral ambiguity. The novel's unforgettable cast — from the enigmatic Mr. Vladimir to the heartbreaking Stevie — illustrates how ordinary lives are sacrificed on the altar of political abstraction. For those who think they know where Conrad's labyrinthine plot is heading, the final pages guarantee a profound and unsettling surprise.