The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale -- Joseph Conrad

<b><b>Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time</b> <p/>Edited and with Notes by Peter Lancelot Mallios<br>Introduction by Robert D. Kaplan</b> <p/>In reexamining <i>The Secret Agent</i> in a post-9/11 world, Robert D. Kaplan praises Joseph Conrad's "surgical insight into the mechanics of terrorism," calling the book "a fine example of how a savvy novelist may detect the future long before a social scientist does." <p/>This intense 1907 thriller-a precursor to works by Graham Greene and John le Carr -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."<br><br><b>Author:</b> Joseph Conrad<br><b>Publisher:</b> Penguin Random House LLC (No Starch)<br><b>Published:</b> 12/14/2004<br><b>Pages:</b> 352<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.55lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 8.08h x 5.24w x 0.78d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780812973051<br><br><b>Accelerated Reader:</b><br><b>Reading Level:</b> 9.4<br><b>Point Value:</b> 17<br><b>Interest Level:</b> Upper Grade<br><b>Quiz #/Name: </b>70610 / Secret Agent<br><br><p><b>About the Author</b><br>Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) grew up amid political unrest in Russian-occupied Poland. After twenty years at sea with the French and British merchant navies, he settled in England in 1894. Over the next three decades he revo