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The Idiot
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The Idiot

Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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A new translation of Dostoyevsky’s great novel of suffering and sickness

Inspired by an image of Christ’s suffering, Dostoyevsky set out to create a protagonist with a truly beautiful soul and to trace the fate of such an individual as he comes into contact with the brutal reality of contemporary society. The novel begins when the innocent epileptic Prince Myshkin - the ‘idiot’ - arrives in St Petersburg and finds himself drawn into a web of violent and passionate relationships that leads to blackmail, betrayal and eventually murder.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Date
4 November 2004
Pages
784
ISBN
9780140447927

A new translation of Dostoyevsky’s great novel of suffering and sickness

Inspired by an image of Christ’s suffering, Dostoyevsky set out to create a protagonist with a truly beautiful soul and to trace the fate of such an individual as he comes into contact with the brutal reality of contemporary society. The novel begins when the innocent epileptic Prince Myshkin - the ‘idiot’ - arrives in St Petersburg and finds himself drawn into a web of violent and passionate relationships that leads to blackmail, betrayal and eventually murder.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Date
4 November 2004
Pages
784
ISBN
9780140447927

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