The Secret Agent - A Norton Critical Edition

This Norton Critical Edition offers the first English book edition of the novel (1907), with explanatory footnotes. Accompanying this are contemporary sources that informed Joseph Conrad's writing of the novel, including newspaper accounts of the "Greenwich Bomb Outrage", articles from the anarchist press, earlier treatments of the Martial Bourdin case in fiction, and texts related both to anarchism and fin-de-siècle culture. Seven wide-ranging critical essays are included, along with a chronology and a bibliography.

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).

Summary

“[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)

Product details

• Authors: Joseph Conrad, Conrad Joseph, Richard Niland
• Assisted by: Richard Niland (Editor), Niland Richard (Editor)
• Publisher: Norton
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2016
• EAN: 9780393937442
• ISBN: 978-0-393-93744-2
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 212 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 386 g
• Series: Norton Critical Editions; Norton Critical Editions
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Classic fiction: general and literary