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The Idiot (1868), written under the appalling personal circumstances Dostoevsky endured while travelling in Europe, not only reveals the author's acute artistic sense and penetrating psychological insight, but also affords his most powerful indictment of a Russia struggling to... Read Full Overview

Translated by Constance Garnett, with an Introduction and Notes by Agnes Cardinal, Honorary Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature at the University of Kent. Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from an asylum in Switzerland. As he becomes embroiled in the frantic amatory and... Read Full Overview

"My intention is to portray a truly beautiful soul." --Dostoevsky Despite the harsh circumstances besetting his own life--abject poverty, incessant gambling, the death of his youngest child--Dostoevsky produced a second masterpiece, The Idiot, after completing Crime and Punishment... Read Full Overview

Fyodor Dostoevsky's classic tale of one man's pure innocence in the face of a society obsessed with power, money, and manipulation

In an age before psychology was a modern scientific field, Fyodor Dostoyevsky (November 11, 1821 - February 9, 1881) was a Russian writer of realist fiction and essays that explored the depths of the human psyche. Known for acclaimed novels Crime and Punishment, The Idiot and... Read Full Overview

A haunting parable of innocence undone, The Idiot stands as Dostoevsky's most personal--and most disquieting--novel. It follows the gentle and guileless Prince Myshkin, recently returned to St. Petersburg from treatment in a Swiss sanatorium, whose radical honesty and spiritual... Read Full Overview

A classic novel of innocence, guilt, and morality by a Russian master

In one of Dostoevsky's most personal novels, Prince Myshkin, an almost comically innocent Christ figure in a land of sinners, returns to Russia from a sanitorium in Switzerland. His naivete and... Read Full Overview

After spending several years in a sanatorium recovering from an illness that caused him to lose his memory and ability to reason, Prince Myshkin arrives in St Petersburg and is at once confronted with the stark realities of life in the Russian capital - from greed, murder... Read Full Overview

Taken to be an idiot the na ve Prince Myshkin visits his distant relative General Yepanchin and hopes to charm him his wife and his three daughters but his life changes drastically after he stumbles upon a photograph of Nastasya Filippovna. Deeply infatuated with her he finds... Read Full Overview

Collector's Edition Laminated Hardback with Jacket

Thrown into a world of manipulation and moral decay, a prince whose kindness seems almost too pure for the harsh realities of society struggles to navigate his place in it. Prince Myshkin, freshly... Read Full Overview

Escrita durante los a os en que Fi dor M. Dostoyevski (1821-1881) deambul por Europa acuciado por sus acreedores, enfermo y necesitado, "El idiota" (1868) es sin duda una de las cumbres de la literatura. La novela, cuyo desarrollo gira en torno a la idea de la representaci n... Read Full Overview