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The Secret Agent: A Norton Critical Edition: 0 (Norton Critical Editions)
Joseph Conrad
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Paperback. "[A] masterly study of the inner workings of the disordered minds whose aim is destruction, violence, and the overturning of law and order by means of bombs."-The Observer (1907) Editor(s): Niland, Richard. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 400 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 131 x 26. Weight in Grams: 386.
This Norton Critical Edition offers the first English book edition of the novel (1907), with explanatory footnotes. Accompanying this are contemporary sources that informed Joseph Conrad’s writing of the novel, including newspaper accounts of the “Greenwich Bomb Outrage”, articles from the anarchist press, earlier treatments of the Martial Bourdin case in fiction, and texts related both to anarchism and fin-de-siècle culture. Seven wide-ranging critical essays are included, along with a chronology and a bibliography.
This Norton Critical Edition offers the first English book edition of the novel (1907), with explanatory footnotes. Accompanying this are contemporary sources that informed Joseph Conrad’s writing of the novel, including newspaper accounts of the “Greenwich Bomb Outrage”, articles from the anarchist press, earlier treatments of the Martial Bourdin case in fiction, and texts related both to anarchism and fin-de-siècle culture. Seven wide-ranging critical essays are included, along with a chronology and a bibliography.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
Series
Norton Critical Editions
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393937442
SKU
V9780393937442
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About Joseph Conrad
Richard Niland is Lecturer in English at the University of Strathclyde. He is the author of Conrad and History and is a contributor to The New Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad. He is the editor of Joseph Conrad, The Contemporary Reviews, Volume 3 (Cambridge University Press).
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