Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad - ISBN: 9780141441948
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Betrayal, revolution, and conscience collide under the watchful Western gaze.

Under Western Eyes

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  • Paperback

    400 pages

  • Release Date

    13 September 2007

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Summary

A gripping novel that ultimately questions our capacity for moral strength and the depths of human integrity.

‘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 a…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780141441948
ISBN-10:0141441941
Author:Joseph Conrad, Allan Simmons
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:400
Release Date:13 September 2007
Weight:293g
Dimensions:197mm x 130mm x 23mm
Series:Penguin Classics
About The Author

Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad (originally J zef Teodor Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowski) was born in the Ukraine in 1857 and grew up under Tsarist autocracy. In 1896 he settled in Kent, where he produced within fifteen years such modern classics as Youth, Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, Typhoon, Nostromo, The Secret Agent and Under Western Eyes. He continued to write until his death in 1924.

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