{"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":43081793765489,"sku":"9780140447927","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0672\/7578\/4305\/files\/imageloader_b43d35d8-2d24-43ae-be28-77dd4b101a3d.jpg?v=1773871526","url":"https:\/\/nextchapterhomeschool.com\/products\/the-idiot","provider":"Next Chapter Homeschool","version":"1.0","type":"link"}