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Authoritative Text, Contexts, Criticism
By Joseph Conrad
"The Secret Agent" was published by W. W. Norton & Company in 2016 - New York, USA, it has 386 pages and the language of the book is English.
“The Secret Agent” Metadata:
- Title: The Secret Agent
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Language: English
- Number of Pages: 386
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- Publish Date: 2016
- Publish Location: New York, USA
“The Secret Agent” Subjects and Themes:
- Subjects: ➤ Anarchists, fiction - Conspiracies, fiction - Bombings, fiction - Terrorism, fiction - Royal Greenwich Observatory, fiction - Drama - Trading companies - Dutch - Classic Literature - Moles (Spies) - Political - British and Irish fiction (fictional works by one author) - English literature - Africa, fiction - Fiction, psychological - London (England), fiction - Fiction, political - Large type books - English Romances - Romance Ingles - English fiction - Drama (dramatic works by one author) - Terrorists, fiction - Fiction, thrillers, espionage - Jewish - Christian - Biographical - Medical - Suspense - Science Fiction - Religious - Psychological - Occult & Supernatural - Mystery & Detective - Hard-Boiled - Historical - Fantasy - Classics - Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) - Radicalism - Collected works (single author, multi-form) - Fiction, mystery & detective, general - Novela policíaca inglesa - American fiction (fictional works by one author) - England, fiction - Children's fiction - Mystery and detective stories - Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924. Secret agent - Conrad, Joseph - Secret agent (Conrad, Joseph) - Conspiration -- Romans, nouvelles, etc - Anarchistes -- Romans, nouvelles, etc - Attentats à la bombe -- Romans, nouvelles, etc - Play - Terrorism - Fiction - Conspiracies - Anarchists - Bombings - Royal Greenwich Observatory
- People: Adolf Verloc
- Places: London (England) - Borneo - England
- Time: 1900's
Edition Specifications:
- Format: Paperback
- Dimensions: 22 x x centimeters
- Pagination: viii, 386p.
Edition Identifiers:
- Google Books ID: H8V-DQAAQBAJ - PNQfDQEACAAJ
- The Open Library ID: OL26370665M - OL39108W
- Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) ID: 987000790
- Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN): 2016018373
- ISBN-13: 9780393522143 - 9780393937442
- ISBN-10: 0393937445
- All ISBNs: 0393937445 - 9780393522143 - 9780393937442
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"The Secret Agent" Table Of Contents:
- 1- Preface
- 2- The Text of The Secret Agent
- 3- Backgrounds and Contexts
- 4- Joseph Conrad • The Informer (1908)
- 5- Contemporary Reviews of The Secret Agent (1907)
- 6- Anonymous • Mr. Conrad’s Tale of Anarchists
- 7- Anonymous • From The Scotsman
- 8- [Edward Verrall Lucas] • From The Times Literary Supplement
- 9- Anonymous • From The Athenæum
- 10- [Edward Garnett] • The Novel of the Week
- 11- Anonymous • From The New-York Tribune
- 12- Anonymous • A Grossly Material Tale by a Master Writer
- 13- Anonymous • Not a Detective Story
- 14- Contemporary Sources and Debates
- 15- Joseph Conrad • Author’s Note to The Secret Agent (1920)
- 16- Pall Mall Gazette • Anarchism at Home and Abroad (1894)
- 17- David Nicoll • From The Greenwich Mystery (1897)
- 18- Isabel Meredith • From A Girl among the Anarchists (1903)
- 19- Robert Anderson • From Sidelights on the Home Rule Movement (1906)
- 20- Peter Kropotkin • From Anarchism (1910)
- 21- Max Nordau • From Degeneration (1895)
- 22- Criticism
- 23- Ian Watt • The Political and Social Background of The Secret Agent
- 24- Terry Eagleton • Form, Ideology and The Secret Agent
- 25- Martin Ray • Conrad, Nordau, and Other Degenerates: The Psychology of The Secret Agent
- 26- Hugh Epstein • A Pier-Glass in the Cavern: The Construction of London in The Secret Agent
- 27- Gail Fincham • Empire, Patriarchy and The Secret Agent
- 28- Peter Lancelot Mallios • Reading The Secret Agent Now: The Press, the Police, and the Premonition of Simulation
- 29- Michael Newton • Four Notes on The Secret Agent: Sir William Harcourt, Ford and Helen Rossetti, Bourdin’s Relations, and a Warning against Δ
- 30- Joseph Conrad: A Chronology
- 31- Selected Bibliography
"The Secret Agent" Description:
The Open Library:
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-siècle 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. (Source: [W. W. Norton & Company](https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393937442))
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