Under Western Eyes (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Conrad, Joseph

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141441941 ISBN 13: 9780141441948

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2007

Synopsis

"It was I who removed de P- this morning." With these chilling words Victor Haldin shatters the solitary, industrious existence of Razumov, his fellow student at St Petersburg University. Razumov aims to overcome the denial of his noble birth by a brilliant career in the tsarist bureaucracy created by Peter the Great. But in pre-revolutionary Russia Peter's legacy is autocracy tempered by assassination; and Razumov is soon caught in a tragic web with Haldin's trustful sister Natalia in spy-haunted Geneva. Their fateful story is told by an elderly Englishman who loves Natalia but plays his part of a "dense Westerner" to the end.

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Book Description:

Set in the tumultuous world of Tsarist repression and revolutionary intrigue, Under Western Eyes (1911) is a meditation on conflicting loyalties, political ideologies and national identity. This first extensively annotated edition provides a full listing of textual variants, extensive notes and the biographical history of the novel.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0141441941
• ISBN 13: 9780141441948
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 343
• Editor: Donovan Stephen, Stape J. H.