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Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky (2003, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherRandom House Publishing Group

ISBN-100679642420

ISBN-139780679642428

eBay Product ID (ePID)2281687

Product Key Features

Book TitleIdiot

Number of Pages720 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2003

TopicPsychological, Classics, Literary

GenreFiction

AuthorFyodor Dostoevsky

Book SeriesModern Library Classics Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.6 in

Item Weight19.7 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2002-035699

Dewey Edition23/eng/20231222

TitleLeadingThe

Reviews"Nothing is outside Dostoevsky's province. . . . Out of Shakespeare there is no more exciting reading." -Virginia Woolf, "Nothing is outside Dostoevsky's province. . . . Out of Shakespeare there is no more exciting reading." -Virginia Woolf From the Trade Paperback edition.

Dewey Decimal813/.52

SynopsisReturning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin finds himself enmeshed in a tangle of love, torn between two womenthe notorious kept woman Nastasya and the pure Aglaiaboth involved, in turn, with the corrupt, money-hungry Ganya. In the end, Myshkin's honesty, goodness, and integrity are shown to be unequal to the moral emptiness of those around him. In her revision of the Garnett translation, Anna Brailovsky has corrected inaccuracies wrought by Garnett's drastic anglicization of the novel, restoring as much as possible the syntactical structure of the original., Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin finds himself enmeshed in a tangle of love, torn between two women the notorious kept woman Nastasya and the pure Aglaia both involved, in turn, with the corrupt, money-hungry Ganya. In the end, Myshkin s honesty, goodness, and integrity are shown to be unequal to the moral emptiness of those around him. In her revision of the Garnett translation, Anna Brailovsky has corrected inaccuracies wrought by Garnett s drastic anglicization of the novel, restoring as much as possible the syntactical structure of the original."

LC Classification NumberPG3326.I3 2003