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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

Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky's masterful translation of The Idiot is destined to stand with their versions of Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, and Demons as the definitive Dostoevsky in English.

After his great... 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

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

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

The Idiot is a thought-provoking and psychologically intense novel that delves into the complexities of human nature and societal norms. The story revolves around Prince Myshkin, a compassionate and innocent man who is deemed an "idiot" due to his naivety and unconventional... 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

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

The Idiot , by Fyodor Dostoevsky , is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics ? series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of... Read Full Overview

Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin finds himself enmeshed in a tangle of love, torn between two women the notorious kept woman Nastasya and the pure Aglaia both involved, in turn, with the corrupt, money-hungry Ganya... Read Full Overview

What happens when perfect goodness confronts a corrupt world? Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Idiot, published in 1869, poses this devastating question through one of literature's most extraordinary characters: Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin, a man so pure of heart that society... 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

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

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