Under Western Eyes: Classic Book Guide and Free Edition
Under Western Eyes: author and translator credits, catalogue synopsis, subjects and links to the Gutenberg reading formats.
Under Western Eyes is catalogued by Project Gutenberg with author credits for Conrad, Joseph (1857–1924).
Catalogue synopsis
Project Gutenberg supplies this automated synopsis of the opening text:
"Under Western Eyes" by Joseph Conrad is a novel published in 1911. Set in St. Petersburg and Geneva, it follows Razumov, a solitary Russian student whose carefully planned future unravels when a fellow student involves him in a political assassination. Forced to make an impossible choice between betrayal and survival, Razumov becomes entangled with revolutionaries and the victim's idealistic sister. Conrad's cynical exploration of revolutionary idealism, autocratic power, and moral isolation stands as his response to Dostoevsky and his own conflicted past.
Book and edition facts
- Title: Under Western Eyes
- Author credits: Conrad, Joseph (1857–1924)
- Catalogue language: English
Catalogue subjects
- Bombings -- Fiction
- College students -- Fiction
- Geneva (Switzerland) -- Fiction
- Political fiction
- Russia -- History -- 1904-1914 -- Fiction
- Saint Petersburg (Russia) -- Fiction
- Terrorism -- Fiction
Gutenberg collections
- Category: British Literature
- Category: Novels
Read this edition
View the complete Gutenberg catalogue record. Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the United States; that designation does not establish its copyright status in every country.
Source notes
Catalogue metadata is public domain and is supplied through Gutendex, which imports Gutenberg's machine-readable catalogue. The automated synopsis is source-supplied, not an independently verified review. Author dates above describe the credited people; no ebook release date is presented as the book's original publication date.
Sources
More in Books & Authors
Keep reading
