The Idiot (Everyman's Library)

Type

Book

Authors

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

ISBN 10

0375413928

ISBN 13

9780375413926

Tags

Classics, Family Saga, Russian, Contemporary, Literary

Description

In The Idiot, the saintly Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from a Swiss sanatorium and finds himself a stranger in a society obsessed with wealth, power, and sexual conquest. He soon becomes entangled in a love triangle with a notorious kept woman, Nastasya, and a beautiful young girl, Aglaya. Extortion and scandal escalate to murder, as Dostoevsky’s “positively beautiful man” clashes with the emptiness of a society that cannot accommodate his innocence and moral idealism. The Idiot is both a powerful indictment of that society and a rich and gripping masterpiece. From award-winning translators, a masterful new translation–never before published–of the novel in which Fyodor Dostoevsky set out to portray a truly beautiful soul.(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) - from Amzon

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