The idiot
By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky ; translated with notes by David McDuff ; with an introduction by William Mills Todd, III.
Contributors: McDuff, David, 1945-; Todd, William Mills, 1944-
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2004
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 732
Subjects: Russia -- Social conditions -- 1801-1917 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Prince Myshkin, a good yet simple man, is out of place in the corrupt world created by Russia's ruling class.

"Returning to St. Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium, the gentle and naive Prince Myshkin - known as 'the 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. In Prince Myshkin, Dostoyevsky set out to portray the purity of 'a truly beautiful soul' and to explore the perils that innocence and goodness face in a corrupt world." "David McDuff's new translation captures the novel's idiosyncratic and dream-like language and the nervous, elliptical flow of the narrative. This edition also includes a new introduction by William Mills Todd III, which is an examination of the pressures on Dostoyevsky as he wrote the story of his Christ-like hero."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxxv]-xxxvii).