The Secret Agent
Subtitle: Authoritative Text, Contexts, Criticism
By: Edited by Richard Niland, University of Strathclyde.
Edition: First edition
Series: Norton Critical Editions
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2016
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9780393522143; 9780393937442
Other titles: El agente secreto
Description: This Norton Critical Edition includes:

* The first English book edition of the novel (1907), accompanied by explanatory footnotes.
* Four illustrations.
* 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.
* 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.

(Source: [W. W. Norton &amp; Company](https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393937442))
Notes: This Norton Critical Edition includes:

* The first English book edition of the novel (1907), accompanied by explanatory footnotes.
* Four illustrations.
* 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.
* 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.

(Source: [W. W. Norton & Company](https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393937442))
Table of contents: title: Preface
pagenum: vii; title: The Text of The Secret Agent
pagenum: 1; title: Backgrounds and Contexts
pagenum: 201; title: Joseph Conrad • The Informer (1908)
pagenum: 203; title: Contemporary Reviews of The Secret Agent (1907)
pagenum: 223; title: Anonymous • Mr. Conrad’s Tale of Anarchists
pagenum: 223; title: Anonymous • From The Scotsman
pagenum: 224; title: [Edward Verrall Lucas] • From The Times Literary Supplement
pagenum: 225; title: Anonymous • From The Athenæum
pagenum: 226; title: [Edward Garnett] • The Novel of the Week
pagenum: 227; title: Anonymous • From The New-York Tribune
pagenum: 230; title: Anonymous • A Grossly Material Tale by a Master Writer
pagenum: 231; title: Anonymous • Not a Detective Story
pagenum: 232; title: Contemporary Sources and Debates
pagenum: 233; title: Joseph Conrad • Author’s Note to The Secret Agent (1920)
pagenum: 233; title: Pall Mall Gazette • Anarchism at Home and Abroad (1894)
pagenum: 238; title: David Nicoll • From The Greenwich Mystery (1897)
pagenum: 243; title: Isabel Meredith • From A Girl among the Anarchists (1903)
pagenum: 250; title: Robert Anderson • From Sidelights on the Home Rule Movement (1906)
pagenum: 257; title: Peter Kropotkin • From Anarchism (1910)
pagenum: 260; title: Max Nordau • From Degeneration (1895)
pagenum: 263; title: Criticism
pagenum: 269; title: Ian Watt • The Political and Social Background of The Secret Agent
pagenum: 271; title: Terry Eagleton • Form, Ideology and The Secret Agent
pagenum: 286; title: Martin Ray • Conrad, Nordau, and Other Degenerates: The Psychology of The Secret Agent
pagenum: 294; title: Hugh Epstein • A Pier-Glass in the Cavern: The Construction of London in The Secret Agent
pagenum: 310; title: Gail Fincham • Empire, Patriarchy and The Secret Agent
pagenum: 330; title: Peter Lancelot Mallios • Reading The Secret Agent Now: The Press, the Police, and the Premonition of Simulation
pagenum: 347; title: Michael Newton • Four Notes on The Secret Agent: Sir William Harcourt, Ford and Helen Rossetti, Bourdin’s Relations, and a Warning against Δ
pagenum: 363; title: Joseph Conrad: A Chronology
pagenum: 381; title: Selected Bibliography
pagenum: 383