{"product_id":"dostoyevsky-fyodor-the-idiot-9780140447927","title":"The Idiot","description":"The most autobiographical novel by the author of Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov—and the namesake of Elif Batuman’s debut novel, The Idiot   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.   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.","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Used - good","offer_id":53462196388182,"sku":"9780140447927-G","price":8.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/5829\/5382\/files\/product_image_9780140447927_1_72fbfa5a-71c4-482a-af04-ce72a7ceb9f3.jpg?v=1778853883","url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/dostoyevsky-fyodor-the-idiot-9780140447927","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}