{"product_id":"the-idiot","title":"The Idiot","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe most autobiographical novel by the author of \u003ci\u003eCrime and Punishment \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Brothers Karamazov--\u003c\/i\u003eand the namesake of Elif Batuman's debut novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Idiot\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Returning to St Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium, the gentle and naïve epileptic Prince Myshkin-- known as the \"idiot\"--pays a visit to his distant relative General Yepanchin and proceeds to charm the General and his family. But his life is thrown into turmoil when he chances on a photograph of the beautiful Nastasya Filippovna. Utterly infatuated, 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 portrays the purity of \"a truly beautiful soul\" and explores the perils that innocence and goodness face in a corrupt world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 0241739829\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780241739822\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, McDuff, David, Mills Todd, William\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Penguin Classics\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"HardCover (Dec 2025)","offer_id":45660116910277,"sku":"9780241739822","price":30.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback (Aug 2004)","offer_id":45660116943045,"sku":"9780140447927","price":15.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Mass Market Paperbacks (Apr 2010)","offer_id":45660116975813,"sku":"9780451531520","price":7.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9780241739822.jpg?v=1768918407","url":"https:\/\/www.inveni.store\/products\/the-idiot","provider":"Inveni","version":"1.0","type":"link"}