Description
| Product ID: | 9781857152548 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | DE |
| Series: | Everyman's Library CLASSICS |
| Title: | The Idiot |
| Authors: | Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky |
| Page Count: | 680 |
| Subjects: | Classic fiction: general and literary, Classic fiction (pre c 1945) |
| Description: | 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. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Everyman's Library |
| Publisher Name: | Everyman |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2002-04-25 |