Fyodor Dostoyevsky Primary Author mixed material bibliography England Penguin Classics 2003 en English

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xli, 732 p. ; 13 cm x 20 cm Returning to St Petersburg from a sanatorium, the gentle 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 black-mail, 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 new translation brilliantly captures the novel's dream-like language and the elliptic flow of the narrative. In his introduction, William Mills Todd III examines the pressures on Dostoyevsky as he wrote the story of his Christ-like hero. "One of the most excoriating, compelling and remarkable books ever written: and without question one of the greatest' A. C. GRAYLING Karya Sastra 891.7 Dos t 9780140447927 Guided by Faith and Knowledge YPSA Digital Library 891.7 Dos t 9780140447927 My Library 891.7 Dos t idiot.jpeg.jpeg 4833 2025-11-12 13:48:38 2025-11-12 13:49:00 machine generated