{"product_id":"the-idiot","title":"The Idiot","description":"\u003cp\u003e\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\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReturning 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDavid 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51695887941912,"sku":"9780241739822","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0693\/3649\/8456\/files\/imageloader_23b5ec19-5cd2-4ad6-86dc-e459b4796c78.jpg?v=1771353400","url":"https:\/\/www.stopandreadbooks.com\/products\/the-idiot","provider":"Stop \u0026 Read Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}