The Idiot by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

The Idiot

The most autobiographical novel by the author of Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov--and the namesake...
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Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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The Idiot by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

The Idiot

$32.00

The Idiot

$32.00
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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

Returning to St Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium, the gentle and naïve epileptic Prince Myshkin-- known as the "idiot"--pays a visit to his distant relative General Yepanchin and proceeds to charm the General and his family. But his life is thrown into turmoil when he chances on a photograph of the beautiful Nastasya Filippovna. Utterly infatuated, he soon finds himself caught up in a love triangle and drawn into a web of blackmail, betrayal, and finally, murder. In Prince Myshkin, Dostoyevsky portrays the purity of "a truly beautiful soul" and explores the perils that innocence and goodness face in a corrupt world.

David McDuff's translation brilliantly captures the novel's idiosyncratic and dream-like language and the nervous, elliptic flow of the narrative. This edition also contains an introduction by William Mills Todd III, which is a fascinating examination of the pressures on Dostoyevsky as he wrote the story of his Christ-like hero.

Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 12/02/2025
Pages: 784
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.95lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.30w x 1.80d
ISBN: 9780241739822

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 10.7
Point Value: 56
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 69663 / Idiot

About the Author
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) was a Russian novelist, journalist, and short-story writer whose novels Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov rank among the greatest of the nineteenth century.

David McDuff (translator) has translated many works of nineteenth-century Russian literature, including works by Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, and Leskov for Penguin Classics.

William Mills Todd III (introducer) is a professor of Slavic languages at Harvard.

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