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Fyodor Dostoevsky The Idiot by Fedor Mihajlovič Dostoevskij; Constance Black Garnett; Agnès Cardinal; Wordsworth Editions is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Inspired by an image of Christ's suffering, Fyodor Dostoyevsky set out to portray "a truly beautiful soul" colliding with the brutal reality of contemporary society. Returning to St. Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium, the gentle and naive Prince Myshkin—known as "the idiot"—pays a visit to his distant relative General Yepanchin and proceeds to charm the General and his circle. But after becoming infatuated with the beautiful Nastasya Filippovna, Myshkin finds himself caught up in a love triangle and drawn into a web of blackmail, betrayal, and, ultimately, murder. This new translation by David McDuff is sensitive to the shifting registers of the original Russian, capturing the nervous, elliptic flow of the narrative for a new generation of readers.

Who reads Fyodor Dostoevsky The Idiot?

Author

Fedor Mihajlovič Dostoevskij; Constance Black Garnett; Agnès Cardinal; Wordsworth Editions

Publisher

WORDSWORTH EDITIONS LIMITED

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9780192834119

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Historical Fiction

Rating

4.18 / 5 (507 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14