The Idiot
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Used
- fair
- Paperback
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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Baxter Springs, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Synopsis
Inspired by an image of Christ's suffering, Fyodor Dostoyevsky set out to portray "a truly beautiful soul" colliding with the brutal reality of contemporary society. 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 and his circle. But after becoming infatuated with the beautiful Nastasya Filippovna, Myshkin finds himself caught up in a love triangle and drawn into a web of blackmail, betrayal, and, ultimately, murder. This new translation by David McDuff is sensitive to the shifting registers of the original Russian, capturing the nervous, elliptic flow of the narrative for a new generation of readers.
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- Bookseller
- Sleepygirl's Used Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 023593
- Title
- The Idiot
- Author
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Publisher
- Dell Books
- Date Published
- 1966
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Email will hold book for 10 days pending receipt of payment. Postage via USPS Media Mail is $3.50 for the first book and $1.00 for each additional book. Satisfaction guaranteed. May return for refund of book price within 7 days of receipt for any reason with prior notification.
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- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....