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The idiot / Fyodor Dostoyevsky ; translated with an introduction by David Magarshack Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881

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Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881
Subjects
Historical fiction.; Russia - Social conditions - 1801-1917 - Fiction.; Russian fiction.
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"Just two years after completing Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky produced a second novel with a very different man at its center. In The Idiot, the saintly Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from a Swiss sanatorium and finds himself a stranger in a society obsessed with wealth, power, and sexual conquest. He soon becomes entangled in a love triangle with a notorious kept woman, Nastasya, and a beautiful young girl, Aglaya. Extortion and scandal escalate to murder, as Dostoevsky's "positively beautiful man" clashes with the emptiness of a society that cannot accomodate his innocence and moral idealism. The Idiot is both a powerful indictment of that society and a rich and gripping masterpiece."--BOOK JACKET.
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