The Idiot - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Fyodor Dostoyevsky, David McDuff, William Mills ToddSeries:Penguin Clothbound ClassicsPublish date:2025-12-02Pages:784
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Penguin ClassicsISBN-13:9780241739822ISBN-10:241739829UPC:9780241739822Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, Literary, PsychologicalSize:7.90 x 5.30 x 1.80 inchesWeight:1.95Product ID:SCB5XVT5C6
The most autobiographical novel by the author of Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov--and the namesake of Elif Batuman's debut novel, The Idiot Returning to St Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium, the gentle and naïve epileptic Prince Myshkin-- known as the "idiot"--pays a visit to his distant relative General Yepanchin and proceeds to charm the General and his family. But his life is thrown into turmoil when he chances on a photograph of the beautiful Nastasya Filippovna. Utterly infatuated, he soon finds himself caught up in a love triangle and drawn into a web of blackmail, betrayal, and finally, murder. In Prince Myshkin, Dostoyevsky portrays the purity of "a truly beautiful soul" and explores the perils that innocence and goodness face in a corrupt world. David McDuff's translation brilliantly captures the novel's idiosyncratic and dream-like language and the nervous, elliptic flow of the narrative. This edition also contains an introduction by William Mills Todd III, which is a fascinating examination of the pressures on Dostoyevsky as he wrote the story of his Christ-like hero.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Penguin ClassicsISBN-13:9780241739822ISBN-10:241739829UPC:9780241739822Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, Literary, PsychologicalSize:7.90 x 5.30 x 1.80 inchesWeight:1.95Product ID:SCB5XVT5C6
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) was a Russian novelist, journalist, and short-story writer whose novels Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov rank among the greatest of the nineteenth century. David McDuff (translator) has translated many works of nineteenth-century Russian literature, including works by Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, and Leskov for Penguin Classics. William Mills Todd III (introducer) is a professor of Slavic languages at Harvard.
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