Under Western Eyes

Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by Vasily Polenov, Ivan Shishkin and Ilya Repin. A Petersburg student betrays a revolutionary to the police, is sent by them to Geneva to spy on the exiles, and finds the dead man's sister waiting there. Conrad's father was sent into Russian exile and died soon after his release and he loathed the whole subject; he had a breakdown finishing this bo...