The Idiot (Oxford World's Classics)
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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- Paperback
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- Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0199536392
- ISBN 13
- 9780199536399
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About This Item
'The main idea of the novel is to depict the positively good man. There is nothing more difficult than this in the world, especially nowadays'.
Dostoevsky
Into a compelling real portrait of 19th century Russian society, Dostoevsky introduces his ideal hero, the saintly Prince Myshkin.
Synopsis
Inspired by an image of Christ's suffering, Fyodor Dostoyevsky set out to portray "a truly beautiful soul" colliding with the brutal reality of contemporary society. Returning to St. Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium, the gentle and naive Prince Myshkin—known as "the idiot"—pays a visit to his distant relative General Yepanchin and proceeds to charm the General and his circle. But after becoming infatuated with the beautiful Nastasya Filippovna, Myshkin finds himself caught up in a love triangle and drawn into a web of blackmail, betrayal, and, ultimately, murder. This new translation by David McDuff is sensitive to the shifting registers of the original Russian, capturing the nervous, elliptic flow of the narrative for a new generation of readers.
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- Bookseller
- Ivy Court Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 37
- Title
- The Idiot (Oxford World's Classics)
- Author
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0199536392
- ISBN 13
- 9780199536399
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- Oxford
- Date Published
- 2008-08
- Pages
- 658