Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky (2003, Trade Paperback)

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Idiot, Paperback by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor; Pevear, Richard (TRN); Volokhonsky, Larissa (TRN), ISBN 0375702245, ISBN-13 9780375702242, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Prince Myshkin, a good yet simple man, is out of place in the corrupt world obsessed by wealth, power, and sexual conquest created by Russia's elite ruling class, as he becomes caught in the middle of a violent love triangle with two women who become rivals for his attention.

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PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100375702245
ISBN-139780375702242
eBay Product ID (ePID)2328574

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Book TitleIdiot
Number of Pages656 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2003
TopicClassics, Sagas, Literary
GenreFiction
AuthorFyodor Dostoevsky
Book SeriesVintage Classics Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height1 in
Item Weight16.4 Oz
Item Length7.9 in
Item Width5.1 in

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Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition23/eng/20231222
ReviewsPraise for Pevear and Volokhonsky's translation of Crime and Punishment : "Reaches as close to Dostoevsky's Russian as is possible in English. . . . The original's force and frightening immediacy is captured. . . . The Pevear and Volokhonsky translation will become the standard English version." Chicago Tribune, Praise for Pevear and Volokhonsky's translation ofCrime and Punishment: "Reaches as close to Dostoevsky's Russian as is possible in English. . . . The original's force and frightening immediacy is captured. . . . The Pevear and Volokhonsky translation will become the standard English version." Chicago Tribune
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Dewey Decimal813/.52
SynopsisFyodor Dostoevsky's classic tale of one man's pure innocence in the face of a society obsessed with power, money, and manipulation The twenty-six-year-old Prince Myshkin, following a stay of several years in a Swiss sanatorium, returns to Russia to collect an inheritance and "be among people." Even before he reaches home he meets the dark Rogozhin, a rich merchant's son whose obsession with the beautiful Nastasya Filippovna eventually draws all three of them into a tragic denouement. In Petersburg the prince finds himself a stranger in a society obsessed with money, power, and manipulation. Scandal escalates to murder as Dostoevsky traces the surprising effect of this "positively beautiful man" on the people around him, leading to a final scene that is one of the most powerful in all of world literature. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky's masterful translation of The Idiot is destined to stand with their versions of Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, and Demons as the definitive Dostoevsky in English., Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky's masterful translation of The Idiot is destined to stand with their versions of Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov , and Demons as the definitive Dostoevsky in English. After his great portrayal of a guilty man in Crime and Punishment , Dostoevsky set out in The Idiot to portray a man of pure innocence. The twenty-six-year-old Prince Myshkin, following a stay of several years in a Swiss sanatorium, returns to Russia to collect an inheritance and "be among people." Even before he reaches home he meets the dark Rogozhin, a rich merchant's son whose obsession with the beautiful Nastasya Filippovna eventually draws all three of them into a tragic denouement. In Petersburg the prince finds himself a stranger in a society obsessed with money, power, and manipulation. Scandal escalates to murder as Dostoevsky traces the surprising effect of this "positively beautiful man" on the people around him, leading to a final scene that is one of the most powerful in all of world literature.

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