The Idiot: A Novel in Four Parts (World Classics) (Dover Thrift Editions) (L.A. Theatre Works Audio Theatre Collections)

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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The most autobiographical novel by the author of Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov—and the namesake of Elif Batuman’s debut novel, The Idiot
 
Returning to St Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium, the gentle and naïve 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,...Read more
  • ISBN10 0341964212
  • ISBN13 9780341964216
  • Publish Date 10 October 2018 (first published 1 February 1969)
  • Publish Status Unknown
  • Imprint Franklin Classics
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 634
  • Language English