Title:
The Idiot
Genre:
Fiction
Literature
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Series:
50 Masterpieces Volume One
Binding:
Paperback
Narrative:
First Person
Type of Book:
Fiction
Number of Pages:
618
Synopsis:
Just two years after completing Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky produced a second novel with a very different man at its center.
In The Idiot, the saintly Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from a Swiss sanatorium 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.
Extortion and scandal escalate to murder, as Dostoevsky’s “positively beautiful man” clashes with the emptiness of a society that cannot accommodate his innocence and moral idealism.
The Idiot is both a powerful indictment of that society and a rich and gripping masterpiece.
ABOUT DOSTOEVSKY:
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-81), one of nineteenth-century Russia’s greatest novelists, spent four years in a convict prison in Siberia, after which he was obliged to enlist in the army.
In later years his penchant for gambling sent him deeply into debt. Most of his important works were written after 1864.
In The Idiot, the saintly Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from a Swiss sanatorium 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.
Extortion and scandal escalate to murder, as Dostoevsky’s “positively beautiful man” clashes with the emptiness of a society that cannot accommodate his innocence and moral idealism.
The Idiot is both a powerful indictment of that society and a rich and gripping masterpiece.
ABOUT DOSTOEVSKY:
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-81), one of nineteenth-century Russia’s greatest novelists, spent four years in a convict prison in Siberia, after which he was obliged to enlist in the army.
In later years his penchant for gambling sent him deeply into debt. Most of his important works were written after 1864.
Author:
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Publisher:
Penguin (black)
Barcode:
9780140440546
Country:
Russia
Publication Year:
1985
OCLC:
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Number of Copies:
1
Automatic Estimated Value:
~$5.51
Automatic Estimated Date:
2024-09-18
Date Added:
2018-06-26 16:28:01