The Prisoner

3.6 avg 69009 votes 92 reviews 516 want to read

About this book

He's a top-level agent, highly skilled and ultra-secret. But he wants out, and they won't let him quit. He quits anyway. Then suddenly comes the dawn when he wakes up in captivity, in a pleasant, old-style, seaside town-one packed solid with electronic surveillance hardware. This is The Village. And he is The Prisoner. If he was good enough, sharp enough to be a top-flight cloak-and-dagger man, is he good enough to escape the men who've chained his life to the wall?

3.6 ★★★★☆ average of 2 sources · 69009 votes
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Reader Profile

Enjoyment72Difficulty60Influence53Popularity68Classic47

3.6/5 · 69009 readers · 256 pages · ≈ 4 h 44 m · Moderate

How long does it take to read The Prisoner?

About ≈ 4 h 44 m — 256 pages, assuming roughly 250 words per page at 225 words per minute.Typical novel≈ 5 h 56 mThe Prisoner~4 h 44 m

How many pages is The Prisoner?

256 pages in its most-read edition.Typical novel320The Prisoner256

What genre is The Prisoner?

It sits on the Spy Fiction, Science Fiction, Adventure shelves.

Is The Prisoner in the public domain?

No — it is still under copyright.

Who wrote The Prisoner?

Thomas M. Disch (1940–2008).

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