Under Western Eyes
Author: Conrad, Joseph
ISBN: 9780141441948
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 13 Sep 2007
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback / softback
A gripping novel that ultimately questions our capacity for moral strength and the depths of human integrity
P#39;It was I who removed de P- this morning.P#39; 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 PeterP#39;s legacy is autocracy tempered by assassination; and Razumov is soon caught in a tragic web with HaldinP#39;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 P#39;dense WesternerP#39; to the end.
ISBN: 9780141441948
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 13 Sep 2007
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback / softback
A gripping novel that ultimately questions our capacity for moral strength and the depths of human integrity
P#39;It was I who removed de P- this morning.P#39; 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 PeterP#39;s legacy is autocracy tempered by assassination; and Razumov is soon caught in a tragic web with HaldinP#39;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 P#39;dense WesternerP#39; to the end.
