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Dostoyevsky's great novel of suffering and sickness, innocence and greed, now in Penguin Clothbound ClassicsReturning to St Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium, the gentle and naïve 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.Inspired by an image of Christ's suffering, Dostoyevsky sought to portray in Prince Myshkin the purity of a 'truly beautiful soul' and explore the perils that innocence and goodness face in a corrupt world. David McDuff's translation brilliantly captures the novel's idiosyncratic and dream-like language and the nervous, elliptic flow of the narrative. This edition also contains an introduction by William Mills Todd III, which is a fascinating examination of the pressures on Dostoyevsky as he wrote the story of his Christ-like hero.If you enjoyed The Idiot, you might like Anton Chekhov's Ward No. 6 and Other Stories, also available in Penguin Classics. 'McDuff's language is rich and alive'The New York Times Book Review'[The Idiot's] ...narrative is so compelling'Rowan Williams

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Book category Books in German Belletristik Erzählende Literatur Hauptwerk vor 1945

• Full title: The Idiot
• Author: DOSTOYEVSKY FYODOR
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 784
• EAN: 9780241739822
• ISBN: 0241739829
• ID: 47057736
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Weight: 750 g
• Dimensions: 204 × 132 mm
• Date of publishing: 11. September 2025

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