02098cam a2200313 i 4500 2614702601 TxAuBib 20260109120000.0 050502s2004||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2005274878 9780140447927 $16.00 014044792X $16.00 (OCoLC)816569200 TxAuBib rda eng rus Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881. The idiot [BOOK] / Fyodor Dostoyevsky ; translated with notes by David McDuff ; with an introduction by William Mills Todd, III. New York : Penguin Books, 2004. xli, 732 pages ; 20 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages [xxxv]-xxxvii.) "Returning to St Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium, the gentle and naive 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.". 20260109. Russia Social conditions 1801-1917 Fiction. McDuff, David, 1945-, translator. Todd, William Mills, 1944-, writer of introduction.