The Idiot: The Original 19th Century Literary Classic, English edition

Unique Elements Author Biography<br/><br/>An Unmissable Literary Classic by Fyodor Dostoyevsky<br/>The Idiot by Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky is a book of literary fiction first published in serial form in 1868-9. This edition features the English translation by Eva Martin, published in 1915.<br/>A celebrated literary classic following the life and loves of Prince Myshkin, a ‘positively good and beautiful man’.<br/>Excerpt<br/>‘Do you know I don't know how one can walk by a tree and not be happy at the sight of it? How can one talk to a man and not be happy in loving him! Oh, it's only that I'm not able to express it...And what beautiful things there are at every step, that even the most hopeless man must feel to be beautiful! Look at a child! Look at God's sunrise! Look at the grass, how it grows! Look at the eyes that gaze at you and love you!’<br/>Synopsis<br/>Torn between two women—the notorious Nastasya and the pure Aglaia— the story follows Prince Myshkin and examines the consequences of placing a ‘positively good and beautiful man’ at the centre of the conflicts, desires, passions and egoism of worldly society, both for the man himself and for those with whom he becomes involved. A powerful, absorbing literary classic, and an unmissable read.<br/>Title Details<br/>◆ Original 1915 English translation<br/>◆ Literary fiction<br/>◆ 6 x 9 in<br/>◆ Matte Cover<br/>◆ White Paper