The Idiot
Book formats
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Hardcover 3 972руб.
Book short specifications
- Author
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Pages
- 680
- Publisher
- Everyman
- Series
- Everyman's Library CLASSICS
- Language
- english
- Release date
- April 25, 2002
- ISBN
- 978-1-85715-254-8
- GTIN
- 9781857152548
- Weight, g
- 709
- Publisher's website
- penguin.co.uk
About
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.