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When an anarchist attempted to blow up the Greenwich Observatory, an idea exploded in the mind of Joseph Conrad. This program re-creates the world of The Secret Agent, the first great novel of political intrigue, in all its suspense and sinister irony. In addition, author and critic V. S. Pritchett and Keith Carabine, of Kent University (England), explore Conrad’s concern that the very fabric of society was being jeopardized by the growing violence and moral corruption—a concern as timely today as it was then.

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This is part of the Ten Great Writers of the Modern World series:
Ten Great Writers Seminar: youtu.be/yiJC_piyJJI
Franz Kafka: youtu.be/1t-GbIbVHCI
Fyodor Dostoevksy: youtu.be/7ZlB2t_fKkE
Henrik Ibsen: youtu.be/U2Glw642vWM
James Joyce: youtu.be/Ob3NWUtCCJI
Luigi Pirandello: youtu.be/YB2yae1t5IY
T.S. Eliot: youtu.be/UoEHySQ9Gmo
Joseph Conrad: youtu.be/yjq19I3U8H8
Virginia Woolf: youtu.be/jYySvYKGong
Thomas Mann: youtu.be/we0Ubj1Qtq0