The Idiot
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: repr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
What does it mean to be truly good in a world consumed by greed, vanity, and moral corruption? The Idiot plunges the reader into the turbulent social currents of nineteenth-century Russia, following Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin, a guileless, epileptic nobleman who returns to St. Petersburg after years of treatment in a Swiss sanatorium. His Christ-like innocence and radical sincerity immediately set him at odds with the scheming aristocratic society around him, drawing him into a devastating love triangle involving the fiercely proud Nastasya Filippovna and the gentle Aglaya Epanchina — a conflict that spirals inexorably toward tragedy. Dostoevsky's masterwork stands as one of the most searching portraits of spiritual purity ever committed to the novel form, interrogating whether absolute goodness can survive — let alone prevail — in a fallen world. His prose, rendered here in Constance Garnett's celebrated English translation, pulses with psychological intensity and philosophical urgency, weaving together social satire, dark comedy, and profound existential despair. Themes of suffering, redemption, and the impossibility of sainthood in a secular age permeate every chapter, cementing Myshkin's place among literature's most haunting and unforgettable protagonists. Can a truly innocent soul endure the weight of a world that mistakes goodness for idiocy?
Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky; Constance Garnett
Format: Hardback
Published: 1969, Heinemann: London
Genre: Classic fiction
Edition: repr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
What does it mean to be truly good in a world consumed by greed, vanity, and moral corruption? The Idiot plunges the reader into the turbulent social currents of nineteenth-century Russia, following Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin, a guileless, epileptic nobleman who returns to St. Petersburg after years of treatment in a Swiss sanatorium. His Christ-like innocence and radical sincerity immediately set him at odds with the scheming aristocratic society around him, drawing him into a devastating love triangle involving the fiercely proud Nastasya Filippovna and the gentle Aglaya Epanchina — a conflict that spirals inexorably toward tragedy. Dostoevsky's masterwork stands as one of the most searching portraits of spiritual purity ever committed to the novel form, interrogating whether absolute goodness can survive — let alone prevail — in a fallen world. His prose, rendered here in Constance Garnett's celebrated English translation, pulses with psychological intensity and philosophical urgency, weaving together social satire, dark comedy, and profound existential despair. Themes of suffering, redemption, and the impossibility of sainthood in a secular age permeate every chapter, cementing Myshkin's place among literature's most haunting and unforgettable protagonists. Can a truly innocent soul endure the weight of a world that mistakes goodness for idiocy?