The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A Dostoyevsky Classic About Suffering And Sickness, Now A Penguin Clothbound Classic Designed By Coralie Bickford-smith Inspired By An Image Of Christs Suffering, Dostoyevsky Set Out To Create A Protagonist With 'a Truly Beautiful Soul' And To Trace The Fate Of Such An Individual As He Comes Into With The Brutal Reality Of Contemporary Society. 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. This Is A Stunning Clothbound Classics Edition Of Dostoyevskys Great Novel, Designed By The Award-winning Coralie Bickford-smith And Translated By David Mcduff.