{"product_id":"9780375702242","title":"The Idiot","description":"\u003cp\u003eRichard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky’s masterful translation of \u003cb\u003eThe Idiot\u003c\/b\u003e is destined to stand with their versions of \u003cb\u003eCrime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003cb\u003eDemons\u003c\/b\u003e as the definitive Dostoevsky in English.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter his great portrayal of a guilty man in \u003cb\u003eCrime and Punishment\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e,\u003c\/i\u003e Dostoevsky set out in \u003cb\u003eThe Idiot\u003c\/b\u003e to portray a man of pure innocence. The twenty-six-year-old Prince Myshkin, following a stay of several years in a Swiss sanatorium, returns to Russia to collect an inheritance and “be among people.” Even before he reaches home he meets the dark Rogozhin, a rich merchant’s son whose obsession with the beautiful Nastasya Filippovna eventually draws all three of them into a tragic denouement. In Petersburg the prince finds himself a stranger in a society obsessed with money, power, and manipulation. Scandal escalates to murder as Dostoevsky traces the surprising effect of this “positively beautiful man” on the people around him, leading to a final scene that is one of the most powerful in all of world literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46958796243184,"sku":"9780375702242","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780375702242_p0.jpg?v=1763691936","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780375702242","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}