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The Idiot

The Idiot

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, David McDuff, William Mills Todd III
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Idiotis an immaculate portrait of innocence tainted by the brutal reality of human greed. This Penguin Classics edition is translated from the Russian by David McDuff, with an introduction by William Mills Todd III. Returning to St Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium, the gentle and naive epileptic Prince Myshkin--the titular 'idiot'--pays a visit to his distant relative General Yepanchin and proceeds to charm the General, his wife, and his three daughters. But his life is thrown into turmoil when he chances on a photograph of the beautiful Nastasya Filippovna. Utterly infatuated with her, he soon finds himself caught up in a love triangle and drawn into a web of blackmail, betrayal, and finally, murder.

Book Details

ISBN13 9780140447927
ISBN10 014044792X
Series/Work OL166973W View on OpenLibrary
Publisher Penguin Classics
Pages 732
Language ENG
Created At January 30, 2025
Updated At January 30, 2025
Last OL update January 18, 2025

Subjects

Accessible book Aristocracy (Social class) Atonement Brothers CHR 2004 Classic Literature Conditions sociales Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author) Dictionaries English fiction English language English literature, translations Epileptics Épileptiques Fathers and daughters Fiction Frères German Histoire History

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