Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Idiot Fyodor Dostoevsky

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.

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.

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)