The Idiot

  • The Idiot
    The Idiot
    By Fyodor Dostoyevsky

    Returning to St. Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium, the gentle and naive Prince Myshkin - known as 'the idiot' - pays a visit to his distant relative General Yepanchin and proceeds to charm the General, his wife and his three daughters.

  • The Idiot
    The Idiot
    By Fyodor Dostoevsky

    Saintly Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from a Swiss sanitorium and finds himself a stranger in a society obsessed with wealth, power and sexual conquest.

  • The Idiot: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    By Fyodor Dostoyevsky

    The novel examines the consequences of placing such a unique individual 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.

  • The Idiot
    The Idiot
    By John Kendrick Bangs

    Funny, clever, poignant and as relevant today as it was a hundred years ago, this is the first of John Kendrick Bangs’ "Idiot" books.

  • The Idiot: Large Print
    The Idiot: Large Print
    By John Kendrick Bangs

    John Kendrick Bangs (May 27, 1862 - January 21, 1922) was an American author, humorist, editor and satirist.He was born in Yonkers, New York.

  • The Idiot: : the Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Books ( World Classic Books the Idiot Book )
    By Fyodor Dostoevsky

    " " There are many reviews of this book making out that Prince Myshkin was Christ-like, a truly good man who lived for the moment. A holy idiot, or more accurately, wholly idiot indeed is what he really was.

  • The Idiot
    The Idiot
    By Fyodor Dostoyevsky

    The Idiot is the story of a saintly, Christian man who is thrust into the heart of a society more concerned with wealth, power and sexual conquest than with the ideals of Christianity.

  • The Idiot
    The Idiot
    By Fyodor Dostoyevsky

    After fifteen years of treatment for epilepsy in a Swiss institution, Prince Mishkin returns ot St. Petersburg to find a jaded mid-19th century social world. At first the kindly, almost childlike prince is taken for an idiot.

  • The Idiot: A Novel
    The Idiot: A Novel
    By Elif Batuman

    For Selin, this is a journey further inside herself: a coming to grips with the ineffable and exhilarating confusion of first love, and with the growing consciousness that she is doomed to become a writer.

  • The Idiot
    The Idiot
    By Fyodor Dostoevsky, General Press

    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 Idiot
    The Idiot
    By Fyodor Dostoevsky

    Into a compellingly real portrait of nineteenth-century Russian society, Dostoevsky introduces his ideal hero, the saintly Prince Myshkin. The tensions subsequently unleashed by the hero's innocence, truthfulness, and humility betray...

  • The Idiot
    The Idiot
    By Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky

    Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin finds himself enmeshed in a tangle of love, torn between two women--the notorious kept woman Nastasya and the pure Aglaia--both involved, in turn ...

  • The Idiot
    The Idiot
    By Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Henry Carlisle

    "The still, radiant center of an ambitious and remarkable novel, Prince Myshkin - the idiot - stands above and apart from characters who vividly and violently embody the passions and conflicts of nineteenth-century Russia.

  • The Idiot: Dostoevsky's Fantastic Prince : a Phenomenological Approach
    The Idiot: Dostoevsky's Fantastic Prince : a Phenomenological Approach
    By Dennis Patrick Slattery

    In Dostoevsky's novel, The Idiot, Prince Myshkin is more an angelic spirit than he is a man; he is a complex metaphor for fantasy, a mode of consciousness that is...

  • The Idiot: English & Russian, Illustrated
    The Idiot: English & Russian, Illustrated
    By Fyodor Dostoyevsky

    The Idiot: English & Russian, Illustrated

  • The Idiot
    The Idiot
    By Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Eva Martin

    In The Idiot he is straining to grasp a story and a character converting themselves from Gothic to Saint’s Life on the run.

  • The Idiot: (Translated by Eva M. Martin)
    The Idiot: (Translated by Eva M. Martin)
    By Fyodor Dostoyevsky

    This edition follows the translation of Eva M. Martin and includes a biographical afterword.

  • The Idiot
    The Idiot
    By John Kendrick Bangs

    John Kendrick Bangs' The Idiot follows the ups and downs of one such unfortunate fellow in a most amusing fashion.

  • The Idiot: A Novel
    The Idiot: A Novel
    By Elif Batuman

    For Selin, this is a journey further inside herself: a coming to grips with the ineffable and exhilarating confusion of first love, and with the growing consciousness that she is doomed to become a writer.

  • The Idiot: Easyread Large Edition
    The Idiot: Easyread Large Edition
    By Fyodor Dostoyevsky

    Originally written in Russian language, The Idiot is a unique masterpiece.