Cover art for The Idiot
Published
Penguin, November 2004
ISBN
9780140447927
Format
Softcover, 784 pages
Dimensions
19.8cm × 12.9cm × 3.3cm

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A new translation of Dostoyevsky's great novel of suffering and sickness

Inspired by an image of Christ's suffering, Dostoyevsky set out to create a protagonist with "a truly beautiful soul" and to trace the fate of such an individual as he comes into contact with the brutal reality of contemporary society. The novel begins when the innocent epileptic Prince Myshkin - the 'idiot' - arrives in St Petersburg and finds himself drawn into a web of violent and passionate relationships that leads to blackmail, betrayal and eventually murder.

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