{"product_id":"the-idiot-9780241739822","title":"The Idiot","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Fyodor Dostoyevsky | David McDuff | William Mills Todd\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Penguin Classics\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Classics\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Classics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe most autobiographical novel by the author of \u003ci\u003eCrime and Punishment \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Brothers Karamazov--\u003c\/i\u003eand the namesake of Elif Batuman's debut novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Idiot\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Returning to St Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium, the gentle and na�ve epileptic Prince Myshkin-- known as the \"idiot\"--pays a visit to his distant relative General Yepanchin and proceeds to charm the General and his family. But his life is thrown into turmoil when he chances on a photograph of the beautiful Nastasya Filippovna. Utterly infatuated, he soon finds himself caught up in a love triangle and drawn into a web of blackmail, betrayal, and finally, murder. In Prince Myshkin, Dostoyevsky portrays the purity of \"a truly beautiful soul\" and explores the perils that innocence and goodness face in a corrupt world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e David McDuff's translation brilliantly captures the novel's idiosyncratic and dream-like language and the nervous, elliptic flow of the narrative. This edition also contains an introduction by William Mills Todd III, which is a fascinating examination of the pressures on Dostoyevsky as he wrote the story of his Christ-like hero.","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46288590897303,"sku":"9780241739822","price":2243.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780241739822.webp?v=1769301419","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-idiot-9780241739822","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}