{"product_id":"the-secret-agent","title":"The secret agent","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBook info:\u003c\/strong\u003e The secret agent (Hardcover, 272 pages – Modern Library, 1998) – Modern Library, 1998. Language: Eng.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Secret Agent is an astonishing book,\" said Ford Madox Ford. \"It is one of the best--and certainly the most significant--detective stories ever written.\"        Set in late-nineteenth-century London, Joseph Conrad's intense political thriller anticipates the espionage novels of such writers as Graham Greene and John le Carré. It concerns a double agent who is charged with provoking the radical group he has infiltrated into an act of sabotage that will bring about its own destruction. In a marvelously drawn underworld of political and criminal intrigue, Conrad brilliantly explores the confused motives that lie at the heart of terrorism. Extraor-dinarily modern in the ironic view it takes of human affairs, this masterly tale of conspiracy builds to a climax that the critic F. R. Leavis called \"one of the most astonishing triumphs of genius in fiction.\"        \"The Secret Agent is an altogether thrilling 'crime story' . . . apolitical novel of a foreign embassy intrigue and its tragic human out-come,\" said Thomas Mann. And F. R. Leavis deemed it \"one of Conrad's supreme masterpieces . . . one of the unquestioned classics of the first order that he added to the English novel.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Joseph Conrad","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53094248513760,"sku":"9780375752520","price":43.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/5681\/6608\/files\/51N_KXxNjFL.jpg?v=1781650888","url":"https:\/\/medicalbook.online\/products\/the-secret-agent","provider":"medicalbook.online","version":"1.0","type":"link"}