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The Idiot

  • Imprint: Everyman

  • ISBN: 9781857152548

  • Length: 680  Pages

  • Dimensions: 211mm x 138mm x 138mm

  • Weight: 709g

  • RRP: £15.99

The Idiot

This study of natural goodness is Dostoevsky’s most touching novel. Prince Myshkin, the last, poverty-stricken member of a once great family and regarded by many as an idiot, returns to Russia from a sanatorium in Switzerland in order to collect an inheritance. Before he has even arrived home he becomes involved with Rogozhin, a rich merchant’s son whose obsession with the fascinating Nastasya Filippovna eventually draws all three of them into a tragic denouement. But this is only the main thread of a rich and complex book in which a dazzling host of characters, from generals to street urchins, present the picture of an entire society on the verge of dissolution. A tragicomic masterpiece.

  • Imprint: Everyman

  • ISBN: 9781857152548

  • Length: 680  Pages

  • Dimensions: 211mm x 138mm x 138mm

  • Weight: 709g

  • RRP: £15.99

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