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The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Dostoevsky's classic tale of one man's pure innocence in the face of a society obsessed with power, money, and manipulation

The twenty-six-year-old Prince Myshkin, following a stay of several years in a Swiss sanatorium, returns to Russia to collect an inheritance and "be among people." Even before he reaches home he meets the dark Rogozhin, a rich merchant's son whose obsession with the beautiful Nastasya Filippovna eventually draws all three of them into a tragic denouement. In Petersburg the prince finds himself a stranger in a society obsessed with money, power, and manipulation. Scandal escalates to murder as Dostoevsky traces the surprising effect of this "positively beautiful man" on the people around him, leading to a final scene that is one of the most powerful in all of world literature.

Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky's masterful translation of The Idiot is destined to stand with their versions of Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, and Demons as the definitive Dostoevsky in English.

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ISBN 13	9780375702242
ISBN 10	0375702245
Title	The Idiot
Author	Fyodor Dostoevsky
Series	Vintage Classics
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2003-07-08
Number of pages	656
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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