The Inventions of the Idiot

✍ Fyodor Dostoevsky 📂 Fiction 📅 1869 🏛 Vintage Books 🌐 en-US ⚖ 439 KB

Paperback, 633 pages Published 1869 Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky After his great portrayal of a guilty man in Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky set out in The Idiot to portray a man of pure innocence. The twenty-six-year-old Prince Myshkin, following a stay of several year

The Idiot

✍ Dostoyevsky, Fyodor 📂 Fiction 📅 2004 🏛 Penguin Publishing Group 🌐 English ⚖ 480 KB 👁 3 views

Prince Myshkin, a good yet simple man, is out of place in the corrupt world created by Russia's ruling class.

The Idiot

✍ Fyodor Dostoyevsky 📂 Fiction 📅 2008 🏛 Oxford University Press 🌐 English ⚖ 387 KB 👁 2 views

SUMMARY: The Idiot (1868), written under the appalling personal circumstances Dostoevsky endured while travelling in Europe, not only reveals the author's acute artistic sense and penetrating psychological insight, but also affords his most powerful indictment of a Russia struggling to emulate conte

The Idiot

✍ Dostoevsky, Fyodor 📂 Fiction 📅 2012;2005 🏛 Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Bantam Books 🌐 English ⚖ 433 KB 👁 2 views

Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin finds himself enmeshed in a tangle of love, torn between two women, the notorious kept woman Nastasya and the pure Aglaia, both involed, in turn, with the corrupt, money-hungry Ganya.

The Idiot

✍ Dostoyevsky, Fyodor 📂 Fiction 📅 2010 🏛 Penguin Publishing Group 🌐 English ⚖ 456 KB 👁 2 views

The Idiot

✍ Fyodor Dostoyevsky 📂 Fiction 📅 2008 🏛 Oxford University Press 🌐 English ⚖ 387 KB 👁 3 views

SUMMARY: The Idiot (1868), written under the appalling personal circumstances Dostoevsky endured while travelling in Europe, not only reveals the author's acute artistic sense and penetrating psychological insight, but also affords his most powerful indictment of a Russia struggling to emulate con