| The Secret Agent Contributor(s): Conrad, Joseph (Author), Niland, Richard (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0393937445 ISBN-13: 9780393937442 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $22.56 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Political - Fiction | Thrillers - Espionage |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2016018373 |
| Series: Norton Critical Editions |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.1" W x 8.3" (0.95 lbs) 400 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 70610 Reading Level: 9.4 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 17.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This Norton Critical Edition includes: - The first English book edition of the novel (1907), accompanied by explanatory footnotes. - Four illustrations. - Contemporary sources that informed Conrad's writing of the novel, including newspaper accounts of the "Greenwich Bomb Outrage," articles from the anarchist press, earlier fictional treatments of the Martial Bourdin case (the inspiration for Adolph Verloc), and important texts related to anarchism and fin-de-siecle culture. - Seven wide-ranging critical essays by Ian Watt, Terry Eagleton, Martin Ray, Hugh Epstein, Gail Fincham, Peter Lancelot Mallios, and Michael Newton. - A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography. |
Contributor Bio(s): Niland, Richard: - 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). |