{"product_id":"9780140447927","title":"The Idiot","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\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. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\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.","brand":"Fyodor Dostoyevsky","offers":[{"title":"Penguin Publishing Group |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2004-08-31","offer_id":48716769001727,"sku":"9780140447927","price":22.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_0dc42bcd-77f0-4a20-bbde-899e8a0c9c0d.jpg?v=1781712772","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9780140447927","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}