The Secret Agent (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) - A Simple Tale

Joseph Conrad

Penguin Classic

1989

272 páginas

9h 4m

ISBN-13: 9780140180961

Edited with an introduction and notes by Martin Seymour-Smith. The Secret Agent is the unsurpassed ancestor of a long series of twentieth-century novels andfilms which explore the confused motives that lie at the heart of political terrorism. In its use of powerful psychological insight to intensify narrative suspense, it set the terms by which subsequent works in its genre were created. Conrad was the first novelist to discover the strange in-between territory of the political exile, and his genius was such that we still have no truer map of that region's moral terrain than his story of a terrorist plot and its tragic consequences for the guilty and innocent alike.