{"product_id":"penguin-black-spine-classics-the-idiot-by-fyodor-dostoyevsky-trade-paperback","title":"Penguin Black Spine Classics: The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Trade Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe most autobiographical novel by the author of Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov—and the namesake of Elif Batuman’s debut novel, The Idiot\u003c\/p\u003e\n\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\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 Book UK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45115027062899,"sku":"9780140447927","price":495.0,"currency_code":"PHP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0693\/1041\/4963\/files\/9780140447927-01.jpg?v=1784774062","url":"https:\/\/nationalbookstore.com\/products\/penguin-black-spine-classics-the-idiot-by-fyodor-dostoyevsky-trade-paperback","provider":"National Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}