An edition of Идіотъ (1880)

The idiot

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An edition of Идіотъ (1880)

The idiot

  • 4.1 (33 ratings) ·
  • 220 Want to read
  • 10 Currently reading
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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.

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Publisher
Dover Publications
Language
English
Pages
540

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Edition Availability
Cover of: Bai chi
Bai chi: The idiot
2012, Chang jiang wen yi chu ban she, Hubei ren min chu ban she
in Chinese - 2 ban
Cover of: The idiot
The idiot
2003, Dover Publications
in English
Cover of: The Idiot
The Idiot
August 1, 2003, Granta Books
Paperback - New Ed edition
Cover of: The Idiot
The Idiot
1987-06, Bantam Classics
Mass Market Paperback in English
Cover of: The idiot.
The idiot.
1979, Signet Books
in English
Cover of: L' Idiot
L' Idiot
1972, Librairie Générale Francaise
in French
Cover of: The idiot
The idiot: a novel in four parts.
1956, Heritage Press
in English
Cover of: Der Idiot
Der Idiot
1930, J. Ladyschnikow
paperback in German
Cover of: Idot
Idot: roman
1920, Izd-vo I.P. Ladyzhnikova
in Russian
Cover of: L' idiot
L' idiot: tome 2
1880, Plon
in French
Cover of: L'Idiot
L'Idiot: Tome Premier
xxxx, Plon
in French - 7è édition

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Edition Notes

Originally published: New York : Macmillan, 1913.

Published in
Mineola, N.Y
Series
Dover giant thrift editions

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
891.73/3
Library of Congress
PG3326 .I3 2003b, PG3326.I3 2003

The Physical Object

Pagination
iv, 540 p. ;
Number of pages
540

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24877868M
Internet Archive
idiot0000dost
ISBN 10
0486432130
LCCN
2003053260

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