Under Western Eyes
Methuen, 1911.
First edition. Original red linen-grain cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt. Signed by the author on the half title page in 1919 and with the last line of the novel written out by him, "Peter Ivanovitch is an inspired man." A very good copy indeed, which is a little cocked with hinges a touch tender and small repair to cloth at the head of the spine.
Under Western Eyes is the last book in the astonishing sequence of novels that constituted Conrad's major literary output, beginning with The Nigger of the "Narcissus" (1897), taking in Lord Jim, Youth, Typhoon, Nostromo and The Secret Agent. "With Under Western Eyes he even dared to challenge (and arguably surpassed) Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment" (ODNB).
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