After his great portrayal of a guilty man in Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky set out in The Idiot to portray a man of pure innocence…
The Idiot (Hardcover)
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Product Description
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.
Additional Information
| Weight | .7 kg |
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| Dimensions | 8.3 × 5.3 × 1.4 in |
| ISBN | 9780375413926 |
| Author | Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| Date Published | 2002 |
| Publisher | Everyman's Library |
| Format | Hardcover |
