{"product_id":"the-idiot-hardcover","title":"The Idiot - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFyodor Dostoyevsky\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eDavid McDuff\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eWilliam Mills Todd\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe most autobiographical novel by the author of \u003ci\u003eCrime and Punishment \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Brothers Karamazov--\u003c\/i\u003eand the namesake of Elif Batuman's debut novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Idiot\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFyodor Dostoyevsky \u003c\/b\u003e(1821-1881) was a Russian novelist, journalist, and short-story writer whose novels \u003ci\u003eCrime and Punishment \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Brothers Karamazov \u003c\/i\u003erank among the greatest of the nineteenth century. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eDavid McDuff\u003c\/b\u003e (translator) has translated many works of nineteenth-century Russian literature, including works by Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, and Leskov for Penguin Classics. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eWilliam Mills Todd III\u003c\/b\u003e (introducer) is a professor of Slavic languages at Harvard.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 784\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.8 x 7.9 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 02, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAccelerated Reader:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eQuiz Name:\u003c\/strong\u003e Idiot\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/strong\u003e Upper Grades, 9-12\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/strong\u003e 10.7\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/strong\u003e 56\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44379425833062,"sku":"9780241739822","price":40.28,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/x9JiFv0z3V9780241739822.webp?v=1768921193","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/the-idiot-hardcover","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}