The Secret Agent
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
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In the fog-shrouded streets of Victorian London, a man named Verloc lives a double life — outwardly a shopkeeper, covertly an agent provocateur working for a foreign embassy — until a catastrophic mission to blow up the Greenwich Observatory unravels everything he holds dear. Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent, first published in 1907, is a masterwork of political suspense that chronicles the moral disintegration of its characters against a backdrop of anarchism, government surveillance, and domestic tragedy. Conrad dissects the hypocrisies of political extremism and bureaucratic indifference with a cold, ironic precision, presenting a London that is both grimly realistic and deeply symbolic. Widely regarded as one of the earliest and most prescient political thrillers in the English language, The Secret Agent established Conrad as a literary architect of moral ambiguity, wielding a narrative voice that is at once detached and devastating. The novel's dark themes — terrorism, manipulation, and the catastrophic cost of ideology on innocent lives — resonate with a chilling modernity that makes it as urgent today as it was over a century ago. For the reader willing to peer beneath its surface of grim irony, Conrad's masterpiece conceals depths that continue to disturb and compel in equal measure.
Author: Joseph Conrad
Format: Paperback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In the fog-shrouded streets of Victorian London, a man named Verloc lives a double life — outwardly a shopkeeper, covertly an agent provocateur working for a foreign embassy — until a catastrophic mission to blow up the Greenwich Observatory unravels everything he holds dear. Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent, first published in 1907, is a masterwork of political suspense that chronicles the moral disintegration of its characters against a backdrop of anarchism, government surveillance, and domestic tragedy. Conrad dissects the hypocrisies of political extremism and bureaucratic indifference with a cold, ironic precision, presenting a London that is both grimly realistic and deeply symbolic. Widely regarded as one of the earliest and most prescient political thrillers in the English language, The Secret Agent established Conrad as a literary architect of moral ambiguity, wielding a narrative voice that is at once detached and devastating. The novel's dark themes — terrorism, manipulation, and the catastrophic cost of ideology on innocent lives — resonate with a chilling modernity that makes it as urgent today as it was over a century ago. For the reader willing to peer beneath its surface of grim irony, Conrad's masterpiece conceals depths that continue to disturb and compel in equal measure.