## Details * Title:: [[Media/Books/The Secret Agent|The Secret Agent]] * Authors:: [[Joseph Conrad]] * Tags:: #fiction * Read:: [[2026-05-06]] * Instagram :: https://www.instagram.com/p/DYAxN9rgTXT/ ## Editions - Edition:: [[Penguin Classics]], 2007 - Original Copyright:: 1907 - Pages:: 320 ## Purchase * Bookshop.org:: https://bookshop.org/a/94437/9780141441580 ## Annotations A nesting doll of deceptions (political, professional, marital) that blows up in everyone’s face (literally AND figuratively). Conrad’s 1907 world of espionage and terror holds up on a quainter scale and slower tempo.  Fun fact: Ted Kaczynski was a huge fan of Conrad and this novel. Even kept a copy with him in his hut.