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The idiot / Fyodor Dostoyevsky ; translated with notes by David McDuff ; with an introduction by William Mills Todd III.

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881 (author.). McDuff, David, 1945- (translator,, writer of supplementary textual content.). Todd, William Mills, 1944- (writer of introduction.). Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881 translation of: Idiot. English. (Added Author).

Summary:

In this literary classic, saintly Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from a Swiss sanitorium and finds himself a stranger in a society obsessed with wealth, power and sexual conquest. He soon becomes entangled in a love triangle with a notorious kept woman, Nastasya, and a beautiful young girl, Aglaya.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780140447927 (trade paperback)
  • Physical Description: xli, 732 pages ; 20 cm.
  • Publisher: London : Penguin Books, 2004.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Originally published in 1868.
Translation of: Idiot.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Language Note:
Translated from the Russian.
Subject: Classics > Fiction
Literary > Fiction
Good and evil > Fiction.
Nobility > Fiction.
Princes > Russia > Fiction.
Triangles (Interpersonal relations) > Fiction.
Russia (Federation) > Social conditions > 1801-1917 > Fiction.
Russia > Social conditions > 1801-1917 > Fiction.
Russia > Social life and customs > 1533-1917 > Fiction.
Genre: Novels.

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881) was a Russian novelist, journalist, and short-story writer whose novels Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov rank among the greatest of the nineteenth century.
 
David McDuff (translator) has translated many works of nineteenth-century Russian literature, including works by Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, and Leskov for Penguin Classics.
 
William Mills Todd III (introducer) is a professor of Slavic languages at Harvard.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881) was a Russian novelist, journalist, and short-story writer whose novels Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov rank among the greatest of the nineteenth century.
 
David McDuff (translator) has translated many works of nineteenth-century Russian literature, including works by Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, and Leskov for Penguin Classics.
 
William Mills Todd III (introducer) is a professor of Slavic languages at Harvard.


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