The Idiot: Introduction by Richard Pevear [With Ribbon Book Mark] (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780375413926)

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The Idiot: Introduction by Richard Pevear [With Ribbon Book Mark]

$34.00

The Idiot: Introduction by Richard Pevear [With Ribbon Book Mark]

$34.00
Format: Hardcover
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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 and "be among people." Even before he reaches home he meets the dark Rogozhin, a rich merchant's son whose obsession with the beautiful Nastasya Filippovna eventually draws all three of them into a tragic denouement. In Petersburg, the prince finds himself a stranger in a society obsessed with money, power, and manipulation. Scandal escalates to murder as Dostoevsky traces the surprising effect of this "positively beautiful man" on the people around him, leading to a final scene that is one of the most powerful in all of world literature.

Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Everyman's Library Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times.

Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
ISBN-10: 0375413928
ISBN-13: 9780375413926
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Language: English
Published: 04/30/2002
Pages: 672
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.30w x 1.50d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 10.7
Point Value: 56
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 69663 / Idiot


Review Citation(s):
PW Notes and Reprints 05/27/2002 pg. 39
Publishers Weekly 05/27/2002

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By Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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FYODOR MIKAILOVICH DOSTEOVSKY'S life was as dark and dramatic as the great novels he wrote. He was born in Moscow in 1821. A short first novel, Poor Folk (1846) brought him instant success, but his writing career was cut short by his arrest for alleged subversion against Tsar Nicholas I in 1849. In prison he was given the "silent treatment" for eight months (guards even wore velvet soled boots) before he was led in front a firing squad. Dressed in a death shroud, he faced an open grave and awaited execution, when suddenly, an order arrived commuting his sentence. He then spent four years at hard labor in a Siberian prison, where he began to suffer from epilepsy, and he returned to St. Petersburg only a full ten years after he had left in chains.

His prison experiences coupled with his conversion to a profoundly religious philosophy formed the basis for his great novels. But it was his fortuitous marriage to Anna Snitkina, following a period of utter destitution brought about by his compulsive gambling, that gave Dostoevsky the emotional stability to complete Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1868-69), The Possessed (1871-72), and The Brothers Karamazov (1879-80). When Dostoevsky died in 1881, he left a legacy of masterworks that influenced the great thinkers and writers of the Western world and immortalized him as a giant among writers of world literature.

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