{"product_id":"the-idiot-penguin-classics-by-fyodor-dostoyevsky","title":"The Idiot (Penguin Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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, and finally, murder. In Prince Myshkin, Dostoyevsky portrays the purity of “a truly beautiful soul” and explores the perils that innocence and goodness face in a corrupt world. David McDuff's translation brilliantly captures the novel's idiosyncratic and dream-like language and the nervous, elliptic flow of the narrative. This edition also contains an introduction by William Mills Todd III, which is a fascinating examination of the pressures on Dostoyevsky as he wrote the story of his Christ-like hero.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47380742537401,"sku":"014044792X","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0793\/7871\/0713\/files\/81R0hEWva1L._AC_SL1500.jpg?v=1780801253","url":"https:\/\/coziecorners-3.myshopify.com\/products\/the-idiot-penguin-classics-by-fyodor-dostoyevsky","provider":"BestBuyBooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}