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The Idiot (Everyman's Library) by Fyodor Dostoevsky is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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<p><P>(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)<P>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.<P>Just two years after completing <i>Crime and Punishment</i>, Dostoevsky produced a second novel with a very different man at its center. In <i>The Idiot</i>, 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. <i>The Idiot</i> is both a powerful indictment of that society and a rich and gripping masterpiece.</p><h3>Publishers Weekly</h3><p>Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, justly acclaimed for their translations of such Russian classics as Gogol's Dead Souls and Dostoyevski's The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment and Notes from
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Publisher
- New York: Everyman's Library
- Published
- 2002
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780375413926
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Philosophy
- Rating
- 4.18 / 5 (344 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14