The Idiot A Novel In Four Parts
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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- Hardcover
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- Book in Near Mint condition as is slipcase/Slip case
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The Idiot is a novel by the 19th-century Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It was first published serially in the journal The Russian Messenger in 1868–9. The title is an ironic reference to the central character of the novel, Prince (Knyaz) Lyov Nikolaevich Myshkin, a young man whose goodness and open-hearted simplicity lead many of the more worldly characters he encounters to mistakenly assume that he lacks intelligence and insight.
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...
Heritage Club Edition, copyright 1956-1984 Heritage Press. With sandglass. Translstion by by Constance Garnett & revised and edited for this edition, with an introduction, by Avrahm Yarmolinsky. Illustrated by Fritz Eachenberg with 29 wood-engravings, most of them large full-page blocks, all of them of a hypnotic beauty. Book in Near Mint condition as is slipcase.
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- Title
- The Idiot A Novel In Four Parts
- Author
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Illustrator
- illustrated with wood-engravings by Fritz Eachenberg
- Book Condition
- Used - Book in Near Mint condition as is slipcase
- Jacket Condition
- Slip case
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Heritage Club Edition, copyright 1956-1984 Heritage Press
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Heritage Press, Norwalk, Connecticut
- Date Published
- (1956-1984)
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- FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Siblings; Christmas Catalog; HERITAGE PRESS COLLECTION;
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