The Idiot - (Penguin Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Paperback)

The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky is a captivating and thought-provoking novel that explores the themes of innocence, goodness, and the corrupting influence of human greed.

The story follows the journey of Prince Myshkin, a gentle and naive epileptic who returns to St Petersburg after a stay in a Swiss sanatorium, only to find himself caught up in a love triangle and drawn into a web of blackmail, betrayal, and murder.

Through his portrayal of Prince Myshkin, Dostoyevsky seeks to depict the purity of a 'truly beautiful soul' and explore the perils that innocence and goodness face in a corrupt world. This new translation by David McDuff brilliantly captures the novel's idiosyncratic language and nervous, elliptic flow of the narrative, making it an absolute must-read for fans of classic literature.

With an introduction by William Mills Todd III that provides a fascinating examination of the pressures on Dostoyevsky as he wrote the story of his Christ-like hero, this edition offers a comprehensive and compelling exploration of one of the greatest novels of all time.

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