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The Idiot

Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky; Alan Myers
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.
Series: World's classics.
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"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  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Historical fiction
Translations into English
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Fyodor Dostoyevsky; Alan Myers
ISBN: 0192826042 9780192826046
OCLC Number: 24320575
Language Note: Translation of: Idiot.
Notes: Translation of: Idiot.
"First published as a World's classics paperback 1992"--T.p. verso.
Description: xxix, 658 p. : map ; 18 cm.
Series Title: World's classics.
Other Titles: Idiot.
Responsibility: Fedor Dostoevsky ; translated by Alan Myers ; with an introduction by William Leatherbarrow.
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"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."--Jacket.

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schema:reviewBody""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."--Jacket."
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