Under Western Eyes

Joseph Conrad, Allan Simmons, Allan Simmons , Stephen Donovan

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Penguin
13 September 2007

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 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.

By: Joseph Conrad
Notes by: Allan Simmons
Introduction by: Allan Simmons
Edited by: Stephen Donovan
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 292g
ISBN: 9780141441948
ISBN 10: 0141441941
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 13 September 2007
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Joseph Conrad (originally Jozef 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.