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The Idiot

By Fyodor Dostoevsky
Introduction by Joseph Frank
Translated by Constance Garnett
Revised by Anna Brailovsky

By Fyodor Dostoevsky
Introduction by Joseph Frank
Translated by Constance Garnett
Revised by Anna Brailovsky

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Apr 08, 2003 | ISBN 9780679642428

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About The Idiot

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 involved, in turn, with the corrupt, money-hungry Ganya. In the end, Myshkin’s honesty, goodness, and integrity are shown to be unequal to the moral emptiness of those around him. In her revision of the Garnett translation, Anna Brailovsky has corrected inaccuracies wrought by Garnett’s drastic anglicization of the novel, restoring as much as possible the syntactical structure of the original.

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About Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Mikailovich Dostoevsky’s life was as dark and dramatic as the great novels he wrote. He was born in Moscow in 1821. A short first novel, Poor Folk (1846), brought him instant success, but his writing career was cut short by his… More about Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Category: Fiction Classics | Literary Fiction

Paperback | $18.00
Published by Modern Library
Apr 08, 2003 | 720 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780679642428
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“Nothing is outside Dostoevsky’s province. . . . Out of Shakespeare there is no more exciting reading.” —Virginia Woolf

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