THE SECRET AGENT

Author: Joseph Conrad
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Publication Date: 2002-01-01
Features: "The Secret Agent (1907) builds a triangle of conspiracy, which is destroyed, by the self-interest of its participants. Mr Verloc, employed by a foreign embassy to incriminate an anarchist group, instead destroys his family, his illusions, and his own life, in a terrorist act gone utterly wrong. Conrad's ironic and troubling novel exposes the futility of political extremism and the strength, and vanity of human illusion." -- This text refers to the Paperback edition.
Author Bio: Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), Known primarily as a writer of sea stories in his own time, Conrad has since been acclaimed as a leading influence in the Modernist movement, with his novels displaying masterful narrative techniques. First published in book form in 1907, "The Secret Agent" is a subtle study of espionage and anarchy in Edwardian England. One of Conrad's darkest and most thrilling novels, F. R. Leavis thought it was a classic of the first order.