"Under Western eyes, which first appeared in 1911 and for many years remained one of the Conrad´s most neglected novels, has come more recently to join Nostromo and The Secret Agent as a recognizedmember oif the powerful sequence of books he wrote on the crises of modern history, politics , adn revolution. Today it stands as an English classic of its kind, a masterpiece in a major line of fiction in this centuryin this century, and one of the key books both in Conrad´s career and in the English fiction that connects most closely with the European and Russian novel of the past hundred and fifty years. Ford Madox Ford called it "the greatest - as it is the latest- of all Conrad´s great novels". André saw in it some of the most "prophetic reflections about the Russian soul" he had ever read. F.R. Leavis has rated it "a most distinguished work" which "must be counted among those upon which Conrad´s status as one of the great English masters securely rests." With Morton Dauwen Zabel´s critical and biographical introduction, it now joins The secret Agent and tales of Heroes and History in the Anchor Books series to show Conrad as one of the most searching dramatists of modern history and politics in the twentieth century." contraportada.