{"product_id":"the-secret-agent-a-simple-tale-9780812973051","title":"The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eSelected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEdited and with Notes by Peter Lancelot Mallios\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction by Robert D. Kaplan \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn reexamining \u003ci\u003eThe Secret Agent\u003c\/i\u003e in a post-9\/11 world, Robert D. Kaplan praises Joseph Conrad's \"surgical insight into the mechanics of terrorism,\" calling the book \"a fine example of how a savvy novelist may detect the future long before a social scientist does.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis intense 1907 thriller-a precursor to works by Graham Greene and John le Carr�-concerns a British double agent who infiltrates a cabal of anarchists. Conrad explores political and criminal intrigue in a modern society, building to a climax that the critic F. R. Leavis deemed \"one of the most astonishing triumphs of genius in fiction.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJoseph Conrad (1857-1924) grew up amid political unrest in Russian-occupied Poland. After twenty years at sea with the French and British merchant navies, he settled in England in 1894. Over the next three decades he revolutionized the English novel with works such as Typhoon (1902), Youth (1902), Nostromo (1904), The Secret Agent (1907), Under Western Eyes (1911), Chance (1913), and Victory (1915).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Modern Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50492127609106,"sku":"9780812973051","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_349857fe-5702-4d19-867a-260d3a34bd40.jpg?v=1748531899","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-secret-agent-a-simple-tale-9780812973051","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}