The Idiot

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Penguin
Publisher Place: Uk
Publisher Year: 2004
Edition: Reprint

Description: 732 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Fyodor Dostoyevskys 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.

ISBN: 9780140447927