Under Western Eyes (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781481220781)

Under Western Eyes (1911) is a novel by Joseph Conrad. The novel takes place in St. Petersburg, Russia, and Geneva, Switzerland, and is viewed as Conrad's response to the themes explored in Crime and Punishment; Conrad being reputed to have detested Dostoevsky. It is also, some say, Conrad's response to his own early life; his father was a famous revolutionary imprisoned by the Russians. This novel is considered to be one of Conrad's major works and is close in subject matter to The Secret Agent. It is damning indictment of the historical failures of revolutionary movements and ideals. Joseph Conrad (born J zef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski(3 December 1857 - 3 August 1924) was a Polish novelist who wrote in English, after settling in England. Conrad is regarded as one of the great novelists in English, though he did not speak the language fluently until he was in his twenties . He wrote stories and novels, often with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of an indifferent universe. He was a master prose stylist who brought a distinctly non-English tragic sensibility into English literature.

Author: Alex Struik, Joseph Conrad
ISBN-10: 1481220780
ISBN-13: 9781481220781
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 12/10/2012
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.22lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.85d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 9.1
Point Value: 21
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 50688 / Under Western Eyes