{"product_id":"penguin-clothbound-classics-the-idiot","title":"Penguin Clothbound Classics: The Idiot","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe most autobiographical novel by the author of \u003cem\u003eCrime and Punishment\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Brothers Karamazov\u003c\/em\u003e—and the namesake of Elif Batuman’s debut novel, \u003cem\u003eThe Idiot\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis is a stunning new Clothbound Classics edition of Dostoyevsky's great novel, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith and translated by David McDuff. These delectable and collectible Penguin editions are bound in colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\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\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Classics UK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44575865700439,"sku":"9780241739822","price":172.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/1665\/1863\/files\/9780241739822.jpg?v=1793144655","url":"https:\/\/valuegrovia.shop\/products\/penguin-clothbound-classics-the-idiot","provider":"Marlowe District","version":"1.0","type":"link"}