Dostoevsky, F. M.
The Idiot (Penguin Classics)
- ISBN 13:
- 9780140447927
- author:
- Dostoevsky, F. M.
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Penguin Classics
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2004
- Pages:
- 768
- Dimensions:
- 12.95 x 3.56 x 19.81 centimetres
- Genre:
- 19th century fiction
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 5 working days
Description
The Idiot is a novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky that tells the story of Prince Myshkin, a gentle and naïve epileptic who returns to St Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium. He visits his distant relative, General Yepanchin, and charms the General and his family, but his life is soon thrown into turmoil when he encounters a photograph of the beautiful Nastasya Filippovna. This novel explores the perils that innocence and goodness face in a corrupt world, as Dostoyevsky portrays the purity of a truly beautiful soul. The novel follows Prince Myshkin's entanglement in a love triangle and his subsequent involvement in a web of blackmail, betrayal, and murder. Dostoyevsky's translation by David McDuff brings to life the novel's idiosyncratic and dream-like language and the nervous, elliptic flow of the narrative. This edition also includes an introduction by William Mills Todd III, which provides a fascinating examination of the pressures on Dostoyevsky as he wrote the story of his Christ-like hero. With its complex characters and themes, The Idiot is a thought-provoking and deeply human novel that explores the complexities of human nature.
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