The Idiot

This study of natural goodness is Dostoevsky's most touching novel. Prince Myshkin, the last, poverty-stricken member of a once great family and regarded by many as an idiot, returns to Russia from a sanatorium in Switzerland in order to collect an inheritance. Before he has even arrived home he becomes involved with Rogozhin, a rich merchant's son whose obsession with the fascinating Nastasya Filippovna eventually draws all three of them into a tragic denouement. But this is only the main thread of a rich and complex book in which a dazzling host of characters, from generals to street urchins, present the picture of an entire society on the verge of dissolution. A tragicomic masterpiece.

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• Authors: F.M. Dostoevky, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Dostoevsky Fyodor
• Assisted by: Richard Pevear (Introduction), Pevear Richard (Introduction), Richard Pevear (Translation), Pevear Richard (Translation), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translation), Volokhonsky Larissa (Translation)
• Publisher: Everyman's Library UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.04.2002
• EAN: 9781857152548
• ISBN: 978-1-85715-254-8
• No. of pages: 680
• Dimensions: 137 mm x 210 mm x 36 mm
• Series: Everyman's Library CLASSICS; Everyman's Library CLASSICS
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Russische SchriftstellerInnen: Werke (div.), FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Classic fiction: general and literary