An edition of The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale
(1907)
The Secret Agent
Authoritative Text, Contexts, Criticism
First edition.
by Joseph Conrad
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The Secret Agent: Authoritative Text, Contexts, Criticism
2016, W. W. Norton & Company
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The Secret Agent: Centennial Editon (Signet Classics)
April 3, 2007, Signet Classics
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El agente secreto/The Secret Agent
June 30, 2005, Ediciones Catedra S.A.
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The secret agent: a simple tale
1997, Dent, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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The secret agent: a simple tale
1985, Penguin Books, Viking Penguin
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SECRET AGENT, THE
December 1, 1983, Bantam Classics, Bantam Books
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Table of Contents
Preface
Page vii
The Text of The Secret Agent
Page 1
Backgrounds and Contexts
Page 201
Joseph Conrad • The Informer (1908)
Page 203
Contemporary Reviews of The Secret Agent (1907)
Page 223
Anonymous • Mr. Conrad’s Tale of Anarchists
Page 223
Anonymous • From The Scotsman
Page 224
[Edward Verrall Lucas] • From The Times Literary Supplement
Page 225
Anonymous • From The Athenæum
Page 226
[Edward Garnett] • The Novel of the Week
Page 227
Anonymous • From The New-York Tribune
Page 230
Anonymous • A Grossly Material Tale by a Master Writer
Page 231
Anonymous • Not a Detective Story
Page 232
Contemporary Sources and Debates
Page 233
Joseph Conrad • Author’s Note to The Secret Agent (1920)
Page 233
Pall Mall Gazette • Anarchism at Home and Abroad (1894)
Page 238
David Nicoll • From The Greenwich Mystery (1897)
Page 243
Isabel Meredith • From A Girl among the Anarchists (1903)
Page 250
Robert Anderson • From Sidelights on the Home Rule Movement (1906)
Page 257
Peter Kropotkin • From Anarchism (1910)
Page 260
Max Nordau • From Degeneration (1895)
Page 263
Criticism
Page 269
Ian Watt • The Political and Social Background of The Secret Agent
Page 271
Terry Eagleton • Form, Ideology and The Secret Agent
Page 286
Martin Ray • Conrad, Nordau, and Other Degenerates: The Psychology of The Secret Agent
Page 294
Hugh Epstein • A Pier-Glass in the Cavern: The Construction of London in The Secret Agent
Page 310
Gail Fincham • Empire, Patriarchy and The Secret Agent
Page 330
Peter Lancelot Mallios • Reading The Secret Agent Now: The Press, the Police, and the Premonition of Simulation
Page 347
Michael Newton • Four Notes on The Secret Agent: Sir William Harcourt, Ford and Helen Rossetti, Bourdin’s Relations, and a Warning against Δ
Page 363
Joseph Conrad: A Chronology
Page 381
Selected Bibliography
Page 383
Edition Notes
This Norton Critical Edition includes:
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The first English book edition of the novel (1907), accompanied by explanatory footnotes.
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Four illustrations.
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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.
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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.
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The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale is a novel by Joseph Conrad, first published in 1907. The story is set in London in 1886 and deals with Mr. Adolf Verloc and his work as a spy for an unnamed country (presumably Russia). The Secret Agent is one of Conrad's later political novels in which he moved away from his former tales of seafaring. The novel is dedicated to H. G. Wells and deals broadly with anarchism, espionage, and terrorism. It also deals with exploitation of the vulnerable in Verloc's relationship with his brother-in-law Stevie, who has an intellectual disability. Conrad’s gloomy portrait of London depicted in the novel was influenced by Charles Dickens’ Bleak House.
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