{"product_id":"the-idiot-penguin-classics-014044792x","title":"The Idiot (Penguin Classics)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 014044792X\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Dostoyevsky, Fyodor\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe most autobiographical novel by the author of Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov-and the namesake of Elif Batumans debut novel, The IdiotReturning to St Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium, the gentle and nave 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.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\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51533746077984,"sku":"NEW014044792X","price":17.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/81R0hEWva1L.jpg?v=1777351410","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/the-idiot-penguin-classics-014044792x","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}