The Idiot

  • The Idiot
    The Idiot
    By Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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  • The Idiot
    The Idiot
    By Fyodor Dostoevsky

    The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky from Coterie Classics All Coterie Classics have been formatted for ereaders and devices and include a bonus link to the free audio book. “Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time ...

  • The Idiot
    The Idiot
    By Fyodor Dostoevsky

    “Well, and why did I torment him for five whole years and not let him go? ... You say, take the hundred thousand and send him packing if it's revolting And it's true, that it's revolting. ... “Will you take me as I am, with nothing?

  • The Idiot: A Novel in Two Books
    The Idiot: A Novel in Two Books
    By Fyodor Dostoyevsky

    The Idiot: A Novel in Two Books

  • The Idiot
    The Idiot
    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: Introduction by Richard Pevear
    The Idiot: Introduction by Richard Pevear
    By Fyodor Dostoevsky

    From award-winning translators, a masterful new translation–never before published–of the novel in which Fyodor Dostoevsky set out to portray a truly beautiful soul.

  • The Idiot
    The Idiot
    By Fyodor Dostoyevsky

    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.

  • The Idiot
    The Idiot
    By Elif Batuman

    What she doesn't expect is: - How much time she will spend thinking about language and its limitations - An opinionated cosmopolitan Serb named Svetlana, who will become her confidante - A mathematician from Hungary called Ivan, whom she ...

  • The Idiot
    The Idiot
    By Fyodor Dostoyevsky

    The novel begins when the innocent epileptic Prince Myshkin - the 'idiot' - arrives in St Petersburg and finds himself drawn into a web of violent and passionate relationships that leads to blackmail, betrayal and eventually murder.

  • The Idiot
    The Idiot
    By Fyodor Dostoevsky

    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.

  • The Idiot
    The Idiot
    By Dostoevsky F.

    The Idiot tells the story of Prince Myshkin, a man of pure innocence, whose kindness and open-hearted simplicity make many of the more earthy characters he encounters mistakenly assume that he lacks intelligence and insight.

  • The Idiot
    The Idiot
    By Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Constance Garnett, Joseph Frank

    After fifteen years of treatment for epilepsy in a Swiss institution, Prince Mishkin returns to 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
    The Idiot
    By Fyodor Dostoyevsky

    Towards the end of November, during a thaw, at nine o'clock one morning, a train on the Warsaw and Petersburg railway was approaching the latter city at full speed.

  • The Idiot: Illustrated
    The Idiot: Illustrated
    By Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Eva Martin, Murat Ukray

    His wide sleeveless mantle with a large cape to it-the sort of cloak one sees upon travellers during the winter months in Switzerland or North Italy-was by no means adapted to the long cold journey through Russia, from Eydkuhnen to St. ...

  • The Idiot: Collector's Edition - Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
    By Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky

    They were evicted from their lodgings five times for non-payment of rent, and by the time the novel was finished in January 1869 they had moved between four different cities in Switzerland and Italy.

  • The Idiot
    The Idiot
    By Fyodor Dostoevsky

    And if we understand things too quickly, perhaps we shan't understand them thoroughly." ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot The Idiot (1069) by Fyodor Dostoevsky is a novel that recounts the life of Prince Myshkin, a young man of twenty who ...

  • The Idiot
    The Idiot
    By John Kendrick Bangs

    John Kendrick Bangs (1862-1922) has earned comparison with Mark Twain and L. Frank Baum for his humorous fantasies, including "A Houseboat on the Styx" and these wildly adventurous "Andiron Tales" -- featuring talking andirons, bellows and ...

  • The Idiot
    The Idiot
    By John Kendrick Bangs

    "Discussions of residents in a home for single gentlemen; a resident called Idiot, Mrs. Pedagog the landlady, the poet, and other assorted characters"--Barry Cassidy Rare Books blurb

  • THE IDIOT: The Unabridged Eva Martin Translation
    THE IDIOT: The Unabridged Eva Martin Translation
    By Fiódor Dostoyevski

    The Idiot is a novel written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It was first published serially in The Russian Messenger between 1868 and 1869. In The Idiot Dostoevsky hoped to portray the ideal of a man who wishes to sacrifice himself for others.

  • The Idiot
    The Idiot
    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.