The Secret Agent Joseph Conrad, Ravell 9781534915015 Books
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This is one of the greatest and most interesting novels in the language.
Greatest because it's written with consummate skill, the characters come alive in your mind vividly, the narrative is as well-constructed as any by Flaubert or James, Conrad's masters, and the prose is remarkably fluent and felicitous, though it's a grim story (but so is MADAME BOVARY). What's even more interesting is that THE SECRET AGENT could accurately be called a "thriller", the precursor of the best of Graham Greene, though Greene is a very good novelist and Conrad is a supreme artist of classical standing.
THE SECRET AGENT was adapted for the screen by Hitchcock, one of his best films of the 1930s. I think there are also some other film and TV versions, though I'm not familiar with any of them. (Hitchcock's film is well worth looking up, not least for the appearance of the extrordinarily young and beautiful Sylvia Sydney, although apparently she and Hitchcock clashed so violently during the shoot, that he never employed her again in any of his films ... well, she wasn't a blonde!)
Conrad's early novels (ALMAYER'S FOLLY, AN OUTCAST OF THE ISLANDS) are only worth reading if you're a completist or a Conrad fanatic, ditto his later novels (THE ARROW OF GOLD, THE RESCUE, THE ROVER, SUSPENSE). But to miss THE SECRET AGENT, as well as LORD JIM, NOSTROMO, UNDER WESTERN EYES, and VICTORY, would be tragic if you're interested in serious fiction of any vintage.
At this point, in the process of rerereading all these books, I'll make my claim Conrad is the greatest British novelist ever.
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