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The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale

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Based on 81 Ratings and 80 Reviews

Book Description
The Secret Agent is the unsurpassed ancestor of a long series of twentieth-century novels and
films 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 ter... More
Book Information
PublisherPenguin Young Readers Group
BindingMass Market Paperback (78 editions)
Reading LevelUncategorized
# of Pages272
ISBN-100140180966
ISBN-13978-0140180961
Publication Date12/07/1990
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About Joseph Conrad (Author) : Joseph Conrad (born Teodor Józef Konrad Nałęcz-Korzeniowski, 3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Polish-born novelist who spent most of his adult life in Britain. Some of his works have been l... more
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About Martin Seymour-Smith (Editor, Introduction) : Martin Seymour-Smith is a published author and an editor of children's books. Some of the published credits of Martin Seymour-Smith include Nostromo (Penguin Modern Classics), The Secret Agent: Tie-in... more
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