num_pages: 195
description: This collection of thirteen essays by writers from several countries lavishly celebrates the centenary of the publication of Conrad s The Secret Agent. It reconsiders one of Conrad s most important political novels from a variety of critical perspectives and presents a stimulating documentary section as well as specially commissioned maps and new contextualizing illustrations. Much new information is provided on the novel s sources, and the work is placed in new several contexts. The volume is essential reading on this novel both for students studying it as a set text as well as for scholars of the late-Victorian and early Modernist periods.
language: English
title: The Secret Agent
titlecomplete: The Secret Agent (Conradian, 32)
publisher: Editions Rodopi