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The secret agent : a simple tale/ Joseph Conrad ; edited, with an afterword and notes, by Peter Lancelot Mallios ; introduction by Robert D. Kaplan.
- Title
- The secret agent : a simple tale/ Joseph Conrad ; edited, with an afterword and notes, by Peter Lancelot Mallios ; introduction by Robert D. Kaplan.
- Author
- Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924
- Publication
- New York : Modern Library, 2004.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PR6005.O4 S4 2004 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Mallios, Peter Lancelot.
- Description
- xxxix, 306 p.; 21 cm.
- Summary
- This 1907 thriller-- a precursor to works by Graham Greene and John le Carre-- portrays 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."-- From back cover.
- Series Statement
- The Modern Library classics
- Uniform Title
- Modern Library classics.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Political fiction.
- Fiction
- Political fiction
- Fiction.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxv]-xxviii).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 0812973054 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 2004053855^^
- OCLC
- 964860088
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library