The idiot

By Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский

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"The idiot" was published by Penguin Books in 2004 - London, it has 732 pages and the language of the book is English.

“The idiot” Metadata:

Title: The idiot
Author: Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский
Language: English
Number of Pages: 732
Publisher: Penguin Books
Publish Date: 2004
Publish Location: London

“The idiot” Subjects and Themes:

Subjects: ➤ Russia in fiction - Fiction - Social conditions - Social life and customs - Russian fiction - Translations into English - Russia - Classic Literature - Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author) - Television adaptations - Idiot (Television program) - English fiction - Russian literature - Translations from Russian - German - Dictionaries - English language - Russian fiction, translations into english - English literature, translations - Princes - Художественная литература -- Российская Федерация -- Русская литература -- 2-ая пол. 19 в. -- Романы - Aristocracy (Social class) - Brothers - Fathers and daughters - Atonement - Epileptics - Sanatoriums - Triangles (Interpersonal relations) - History - Romans, nouvelles - Frères - Pères et filles - Épileptiques - Triangle (Relations humaines) - Conditions sociales - Histoire - CHR 2004 - PRO Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy) - Long Now Manual for Civilization - Good and evil - Historical fiction - 1801-1917
People: Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) - F. M. Dostoevskiĭ (1821-1881)
Places: Russia - Russia (Federation)
Time: 1801-1917 - 1533-1917 - 19th century

Edition Specifications:

Pagination: xli, 732 p. ;

Edition Identifiers:

The Open Library ID: OL3434283M - OL166973W
Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) ID: 56129600
Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN): 2005274878
ISBN-13: 9780140447927
ISBN-10: 014044792X
All ISBNs: 014044792X - 9780140447927

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Prince Myshkin, a good yet simple man, is out of place in the corrupt world created by Russia's ruling class. "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, 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. In Prince Myshkin, Dostoyevsky set out to portray the purity of 'a truly beautiful soul' and to explore the perils that innocence and goodness face in a corrupt world." "David McDuff's new translation captures the novel's idiosyncratic and dream-like language and the nervous, elliptical flow of the narrative. This edition also includes a new introduction by William Mills Todd III, which is an examination of the pressures on Dostoyevsky as he wrote the story of his Christ-like hero."--BOOK JACKET.