'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.
About the AuthorJoseph Conrad (originally Jozef Teodor Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowski) was born in the Ukraine in 1857 and grew up under Tsarist autocracy. In 1896 he settled in Kent, where he produced within fifteen years such modern classics as
Youth,
Heart of Darkness,
Lord Jim,
Typhoon,
Nostromo,
The Secret Agent and
Under Western Eyes. He continued to write until his death in 1924.
Book InformationISBN 9780141441948
Author Joseph ConradFormat Paperback
Page Count 400
Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Books Ltd
Weight(grams) 292g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 23mm