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The idiot / Fyodor Dostoevsky ; translated from the Russian by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky ; with an introduction by Richard Pevear.

by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881.

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Alfred A. Knopf, 2002.

Russia -- History -- 1801-1917 -- Fiction.

Everyman's library (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.) ; 254.

9780375413926 (hc.)

xxxiii, 633 p. ; 21 cm.

Originally published in 1869; first included in Everyman's Library in 1914.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction -- Select bibliography -- Chronology -- Translators' notes -- The Idiot -- Notes.

"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."--Publisher.

Russian fiction -- Translations into English.

Pevear, Richard, 1943-

Volokhonsky, Larissa.

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