{"product_id":"the-idiot-isbn-9780140447927","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\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\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. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\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.The IdiotChronology\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eFurther Reading\u003cbr\u003eA Note on the Translation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Idiot\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e“A book that manages like no other to plunge fearlessly into suffering while at the same time illuminating the enduring, almost unspeakable beauty of the human.” \u003cb\u003e—Laurie Sheck, \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “One of the most excoriating, compelling, and remarkable books ever written: and without question one of the greatest.” \u003cb\u003e—A. C. Grayling\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “A masterpiece . . . a fact of world literature just as important as the densely dramatic \u003ci\u003eBrothers Karamazov\u003c\/i\u003e or the brilliantly subtle and terrifying \u003ci\u003eDevils\u003c\/i\u003e. . . . [an] excellent new translation.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “McDuff's language is rich and alive.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “[\u003ci\u003eThe Idiot\u003c\/i\u003e's] narrative is so compelling.” \u003cb\u003e—Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eFyodor Dostoyevsky \u003c\/b\u003e(1821–1881) was a Russian novelist, journalist, and short-story writer whose novels \u003ci\u003eCrime and Punishment \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Brothers Karamazov \u003c\/i\u003erank among the greatest of the nineteenth century.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eDavid McDuff\u003c\/b\u003e (translator) has translated many works of nineteenth-century Russian literature, including works by Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, and Leskov for Penguin Classics. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eWilliam Mills Todd III\u003c\/b\u003e (introducer) is a professor of Slavic languages at Harvard.","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301397156069,"sku":"NP9780140447927","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780140447927.jpg?v=1767739901","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-idiot-isbn-9780140447927","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}