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The Idiot

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The Idiot

By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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The Idiot 9780241739822 Classics
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Dostoyevsky's great novel of suffering and sickness, innocence and greed, now in Penguin Clothbound Classics

Returning to St Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium, the gentle and naïve epileptic Prince Myshkin - the titular 'idiot' - pays a visit to his distant relative General Yepanchin and proceeds to charm the General, his wife, and his three daughters. But his life is thrown into turmoil when he chances on a photograph of the beautiful Nastasya Filippovna. Utterly infatuated with her, he soon finds himself caught up in a love triangle and drawn into a web of blackmail, betrayal, and finally, murder. Inspired by an image of Christ's suffering, Dostoyevsky sought to portray in Prince Myshkin the purity of a 'truly beautiful soul' and explore the perils that innocence and goodness face in a corrupt world.

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.

If you enjoyed The Idiot, you might like Anton Chekhov's Ward No. 6 and Other Stories, also available in Penguin Classics.

'McDuff's language is rich and alive'
The New York Times Book Review

'[The Idiot's] ... narrative is so compelling'
Rowan Williams
Publication Date: 11/09/2025
Number of Pages: 784
Binding: Hard Back
ISBN: 9780241739822
Categories: Fiction Classics

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