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The Idiot

By Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear (Translator), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)
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By Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear (Translator), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)
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The foil to Crime and Punishment, The Idiot is Dostoevsky (still) at his shimmering best. This is the story of pure innocence in a world that is anything but. It’s sharp, insightful and immensely entertaining.

Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky’s masterful translation of The Idiot is destined to stand with their versions of Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, and Demons as the definitive Dostoevsky in English.

After his great portrayal of a guilty man in Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky set out in The Idiot to portray a man of pure innocence. The twenty-six-year-old Prince Myshkin, following a stay of several years in a Swiss sanatorium, returns to Russia to collect an inheritance an...

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