Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Joseph Conrad: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text
Author’s Note
The Secret Agent
Appendix A: London
- From Charles Dickens, Bleak House (1853)
- From Ford Madox Hueffer, The Soul of London: A Survey of a Modern City (1905)
Appendix B: Anarchism and Terrorism
- From The Times (16 February 1894)
- From Isabel Meredith, A Girl Among the Anarchists (1903)
- From Joseph Conrad, a letter to R.B. Cunninghame Graham (20 December 1897)
- From Joseph Conrad, a letter to R.B. Cunninghame Graham (7 October 1907)
- From Peter Kropotkin, “Anarchism,” Encyclopaedia Britannica (1910)
- Peter Kropotkin, “The Scientific Bases of Anarchy” (1887)
- From Report of the Royal Commission on Alien Immigration (1903)
- From The Saturday Review (9 June 1906)
Appendix C: Degeneration
- From Charles Darwin, Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animal (1872)
- From E. Ray Lankester, Degeneration: A Chapter in Darwinism (1880)
- From Cesare Lombroso, “Illustrative Studies in Criminal Anthropology: The Physiognomy of the Anarchists” (1890)
- From Max Nordau, Degeneration (1892)
Appendix D: Heat Death, Entropy, and Time
- From William Thomson, “On a Universal Tendency in Nature to the Dissipation of Mechanical Energy” (1852)
- From William Thomson, “On the Age of the Sun’s Heat” (1862)
- From Algernon Charles Swinburne, “The Garden of Proserpine” (1866)
- From Balfour Stewart and J. Norman Lockyer, “The Sun as a Type of the Material Universe” (1868)
Appendix E: Marriage and Feminism
- From Coventry Patmore, “The Angel in the House” (1863)
- From John Ruskin, Sesame and Lilies (1865)
- From Mona Caird, “Marriage” (1888)
- From Sarah Grand, “The New Aspect of the Woman Question” (1894)
- From Hugh E.M. Stutfield, “The Psychology of Feminism” (1897)
Appendix F: Contemporary Reviews
- Country Life (21 September 1907)
- E.V. Lucas, Times Literary Supplement (20 September 1907)
- New York Times Book Review (21 September 1907)
- Edward Garnett, The Nation (26 September 1907)
- William Morton Payne, The Dial (16 October 1907)
- Glasgow News (3 October 1907)
- John Galsworthy, Fortnightly Review (1 April 1908)
Select Bibliography