{"product_id":"9780141906331","title":"The Idiot","description":"12775B - \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDostoyevsky's great novel of suffering and sickness, innocence and greed\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReturning to St Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium, the gentle and naïve epileptic Prince Myshkin - the titular 'idiot' - pays a visit to his distant relative General Yepanchin and proceeds to charm the General, his wife, and his three daughters. But his life is thrown into turmoil when he chances on a photograph of the beautiful Nastasya Filippovna. Utterly infatuated with her, he soon finds himself caught up in a love triangle and drawn into a web of blackmail, betrayal, and finally, murder. Inspired by an image of Christ's suffering, Dostoyevsky sought to portray in Prince Myshkin the purity of a 'truly beautiful soul' and explore the perils that innocence and goodness face in a corrupt world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDavid 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf you enjoyed \u003ci\u003eThe Idiot\u003c\/i\u003e, you might like Anton Chekhov's \u003ci\u003eWard No. 6 and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, also available in Penguin Classics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'McDuff's language is rich and alive'\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'[\u003ci\u003eThe Idiot\u003c\/i\u003e's] ... narrative is so compelling'\u003cbr\u003eRowan Williams\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin UK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47147921932528,"sku":"9780141906331","price":10.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780141906331_p0.jpg?v=1763655539","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780141906331","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}