{"product_id":"idiot-1","title":"Idiot","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eIdiot\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eFyodor Dostoyevsky\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780140447927\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003ePenguin Classics\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2004\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eNew Ed\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e784\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\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.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Idiot | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | Paperback | 9780140447927 | New | Fiction 1583232","offer_id":48357929943192,"sku":"1583232","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/81R0hEWva1L_77e642d0-ce7a-4538-b7b9-15ddcad1d782.jpg?v=1773238042","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/idiot-1","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}