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The twenty-six-year-old Prince Myshkin, following a stay of several years in a Swiss sanatorium, returns to Russia to collect an inheritance and “be among people.” Even before he reaches home he meets the dark Rogozhin, a rich merchant’s son whose obsession with the beautiful Nastasya Filippovna eventually draws all three of them into a tragic denouement. In Petersburg the prince finds himself a stranger in a society obsessed with money, power, and manipulation. Scandal escalates to murder as Dostoevsky traces the surprising effect of this “positively beautiful man” on the people around him, leading to a final scene that is one of the most powerful in all of world literature.
Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky’s masterful translation of The Idiot is destined to stand with their versions of Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, and Demons as the definitive Dostoevsky in English.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky - Author
- Richard Pevear - Translator
- Larissa Volokhonsky - Translator
Kindle Book
- Release date: August 30, 2005
OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9780553901894
- Release date: August 30, 2005
EPUB ebook
- ISBN: 9780553901894
- File size: 2427 KB
- Release date: August 30, 2005
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Kindle Book
OverDrive Read
EPUB ebook
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English
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Lexile® Measure:1040
Text Difficulty:6-8