Joseph Conrad

By: Roger Osborne Paul Eggert Introduction by Keith Carabine Explanatory Notes by Jeremy Hawthorn and Keith Carabine and Roger Osborne and Paul Eggert and Introduction by Keith Carabine and Explanatory Notes by Jeremy Hawthorn

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Synopsis: Set in the tumultuous political world of Tsarist repression and revolutionary intrigue in St Petersburg and Geneva, Under Western Eyes (1911) renders with searing intensity the psychological torment of its Russian protagonist, a university student who, in betraying another, has betrayed himself. Based upon a comparison of the existing manuscript and other materials, this scholarly and first extensively annotated edition of Joseph Conrad's great novel Under Western Eyes differs from all previous printings by more accurately reflecting Conrad's writing process. The reading text is supported by new scholarly materials that are the result of fifteen years of investigation: essays on the textual and biographical history of the novel, extensive notes, appendices and maps, as well as a full listing of the thousands of textual variants in the early forms of the novel, including the 18,000 words that Conrad himself deleted.