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Returning to St Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium, the gentle and naive epileptic Prince Myshkin - pays a visit to his distant relative General Yepanchin and proceeds to charm the General, his wife, and his three daughters. But his life is thrown into turmoil when he chances on a photograph of the beautiful Nastasya Filippovna.

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“A book that manages like no other to plunge fearlessly into suffering while at the same time illuminating the enduring, almost unspeakable beauty of the human.” —Laurie Sheck, The Atlantic

“One of the most excoriating, compelling, and remarkable books ever written: and without question one of the greatest.” —A. C. Grayling

“A masterpiece . . . a fact of world literature just as important as the densely dramatic Brothers Karamazov or the brilliantly subtle and terrifying Devils. . . . [an] excellent new translation.” —The Guardian

“McDuff's language is rich and alive.” —The New York Times Book Review

“[The Idiot's] narrative is so compelling.” —Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury

Table of Contents
The IdiotChronology
Introduction
Further Reading
A Note on the Translation

The Idiot

Notes

The Idiot

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Classics
      Published 27 May 2004
      ISBN-13 9780140447927
      978-0140447927
      ISBN-10 014044792X
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      Book Synopsis
      Returning to St Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium, the gentle and naive epileptic Prince Myshkin - pays a visit to his distant relative General Yepanchin and proceeds to charm the General, his wife, and his three daughters. But his life is thrown into turmoil when he chances on a photograph of the beautiful Nastasya Filippovna.

      Trade Review
      “A book that manages like no other to plunge fearlessly into suffering while at the same time illuminating the enduring, almost unspeakable beauty of the human.” —Laurie Sheck, The Atlantic

      “One of the most excoriating, compelling, and remarkable books ever written: and without question one of the greatest.” —A. C. Grayling

      “A masterpiece . . . a fact of world literature just as important as the densely dramatic Brothers Karamazov or the brilliantly subtle and terrifying Devils. . . . [an] excellent new translation.” —The Guardian

      “McDuff's language is rich and alive.” —The New York Times Book Review

      “[The Idiot's] narrative is so compelling.” —Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury

      Table of Contents
      The IdiotChronology
      Introduction
      Further Reading
      A Note on the Translation

      The Idiot

      Notes

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