false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172155806m/143511.jpg 143511 35 <div>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 <div>&#8212; his close friend &#8212; he must come to terms with timeless questions of accountability and human integrity.</div></div> 3199934 1911 Under Western Eyes (Dover Thrift Editions) total:268|5:62|4:102|3:81|2:19|1:4| 268 1003 443 27 143511 0486431649 9780486431642 176 15 3.74 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172155806m/143511.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/143511.Under_Western_Eyes 5 0 false Thu Aug 13 22:48:02 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 13 22:53:27 -0700 2009
-- To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

That's on the first page!  I knew at that moment that I had chosen t...more...]]> 143511 0486431649 9780486431642 176 15 3.74 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172155806m/143511.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/143511.Under_Western_Eyes 4 0 false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 08 16:15:54 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 08 16:33:59 -0700 2009 more...]]> 298121 0140188495 9780140188493 30 3 3.74 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173497667m/298121.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/298121.Under_Western_Eyes 4 0 false Mon Jun 25 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Feb 02 09:44:45 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 02 09:45:40 -0800 2009 2 more...]]> 2902266 1857150430 9781857150438 1 1 3.74 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2902266.Under_Western_Eyes 2 0 false Wed Aug 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 00:24:18 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 20 00:04:19 -0700 2009 Almeyer's Folly had the excuse of being his first novel. Even the glacially paced The Rover was more satisfying in the end.

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"Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality... the world is but a place of many words and man app...more...]]> 2066402 0679405542 9780679405542 7 2 3.74 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2066402.Under_Western_Eyes 5 0 false Fri Oct 26 05:31:27 -0700 2007 Tue Nov 06 06:08:25 -0800 2007 2110433 0141441941 9780141441948 19 1 3.74 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2110433.Under_Western_Eyes 3 0 false Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1988 Fri Jan 25 11:07:37 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 25 11:08:06 -0800 2008 FWIW, John Gray has a good essay on Conrad called, I think, "Jospeh Conrad, Our Contemporary."]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=143511