num_pages: 732
description: Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Idiot is an immaculate portrait of innocence tainted by the brutal reality of human greed. This Penguin Classics edition is translated from the Russian by David McDuff, with an introduction by William Mills Todd III.Returning to St Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium, the gentle and naïve epileptic Prince Myshkin—the titular 'idiot'—pays a visit to his distant relative General Yepanchin and proceeds to charm the General, his wife, and his three daughters. But his life is thrown into turmoil when he chances on a photograph of the beautiful Nastasya Filippovna. Utterly infatuated with her, he soon finds himself caught up in a love triangle and drawn into a web of blackmail, betrayal, and finally, murder.
language: English
title: The Idiot
titlecomplete: The Idiot
characters: Rogozhin, Nastasya Filippovna, Prince Myshkin
genres: Classics, Philosophy, Russia, Novels, Russian Literature, Classic Literature, Historical Fiction, Literature, 19th Century, Fiction
ratings_count: 173586
places: St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
publisher: Penguin Classics