Under Western Eyes (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780141441948)

"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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Author: Joseph Conrad
ISBN-10: 0141441941
ISBN-13: 9780141441948
Publisher: Penguin Group
Language: English
Published: 12/18/2007
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 7.85h x 6.56w x 0.95d

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