The Secret Agent - A Simple Tale

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time Edited and with Notes by Peter Lancelot Mallios Introduction by Robert D. Kaplan In reexamining 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.”

Product details

• Authors: Joseph Conrad, Robert D. Kaplan, Peter Mallios
• Assisted by: Peter Mallios (Editor), Peter Joseph Mallios (Editor), Robert D. Kaplan (Introduction)
• Publisher: Modern Library PRH US
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.12.2004
• EAN: 9780812973051
• ISBN: 978-0-8129-7305-1
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 202 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Modern Library Classics (Paper; Modern Library 100 Best Novels; Modern Library 100 Best Novels
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature