THE IDIOT

(book Jacket Status: Jacketed)

from Award-winning Translators, A Masterful New Translation–never Before Published–of The Novel In Which Fyodor Dostoevsky Set Out To Portray A Truly Beautiful Soul.

just Two Years After Completing crime And Punishment, Dostoevsky Produced A Second Novel With A Very Different Man At Its Center. In the Idiot, The Saintly Prince Myshkin Returns To Russia From A Swiss Sanatorium And Finds Himself A Stranger In A Society Obsessed With Wealth, Power, And Sexual Conquest. He Soon Becomes Entangled In A Love Triangle With A Notorious Kept Woman, Nastasya, And A Beautiful Young Girl, Aglaya. Extortion And Scandal Escalate To Murder, As Dostoevsky’s “positively Beautiful Man” Clashes With The Emptiness Of A Society That Cannot Accommodate His Innocence And Moral Idealism. the Idiot Is Both A Powerful Indictment Of That Society And A Rich And Gripping Masterpiece.