The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin finds himself enmeshed in a tangle of love, torn between two women—the notorious kept woman Nastasya and the pure Aglaia—both involved, in turn, with the corrupt, money-hungry Ganya. In the end, Myshkin’s honesty, goodness, and integrity are shown to be unequal to the moral emptiness of those around him. In her revision of the Garnett translation, Anna Brailovsky has corrected inaccuracies wrought by Garnett’s drastic anglicization of the novel, restoring as much as possible the syntactical structure of the original story.
- Author
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Contributors
- Anna Brailovsky (Translator), Joseph Frank (Introduction), Constance Garnett (Translator)
- Original title
- Идиот
- Edition published
- April 8, 2003
- First published
- January 1, 1869
- Publication year
- 2003
- First published
- 1869
- Goodreads rating
- 4.21/5 from 230,218 ratings and 13,509 reviews
- Purchased
- December 22, 2017 · kindle
- Publisher
- Modern Library
- Edition
- Kindle Edition · 667 pages
- Language
- English
- Genres
- Classics, Fiction, Russia, Russian Literature, Literature, Philosophy, Novels, 19th Century, Classic Literature, Historical Fiction
- ISBN
- 9780679642428
- Added
- December 22, 2017
- Times read
- 1
- Owned copies
- 1
- Goodreads
- Book record
- Canonical URL
- /books/the-idiot-f056e3e5