Under Western Eyes (Conrad - Dover ed.)

Author: Joseph Conrad

ISBN: 9780486431642

Binding: paperback

Section: Fiction

Description: Political turmoil convulses 19th-century Russia, as Razumov, a young student preparing for a career in the czarist bureaucracy, unwittingly becomes embroiled in the assassination of a public official. Asked to spy on the family of the assassin — his close friend — he must come to terms with timeless questions of accountability and human integrity.