Under Western Eyes

Informationen zum Autor Joseph Conrad Klappentext '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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Joseph Conrad, Stephen Donovan, Allan Simmons, J. H. Stape
• Con la collaborazione di: Stephen Donovan (Editore), J H Stape (Editore), J. H. Stape (Editore), Allan Simmons (Introduzione), Simmons Allan (Introduzione)
• Editore: Penguin Books Uk
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 02.08.2007
• EAN: 9780141441948
• ISBN: 978-0-14-144194-8
• Pagine: 400
• Dimensioni: 127 mm x 195 mm x 22 mm
• Serie: Penguin Classics; Penguin Classics
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary