{"product_id":"the-idiot-hc","title":"The Idiot: Introduction by Richard Pevear [With Ribbon Book Mark]: Introduction by Richard Pevear","description":"\u003cb\u003eRichard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky's masterful translation of \u003ci\u003eThe Idiot\u003c\/i\u003e is destined to stand with their versions of \u003ci\u003eCrime and Punishment\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Brothers Karamazov, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eDemons\u003c\/i\u003e as the definitive Dostoevsky in English.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter his great portrayal of a guilty man in \u003ci\u003eCrime and Punishment, \u003c\/i\u003e Dostoevsky set out in \u003ci\u003eThe Idiot\u003c\/i\u003e to portray a man of pure innocence. The twenty-six-year-old Prince Myshkin, following a stay of several years in a Swiss sanatorium, returns to Russia to collect an inheritance and \"be among people.\" Even before he reaches home he meets the dark Rogozhin, a rich merchant's son whose obsession with the beautiful Nastasya Filippovna eventually draws all three of them into a tragic denouement. In Petersburg, the prince finds himself a stranger in a society obsessed with money, power, and manipulation. Scandal escalates to murder as Dostoevsky traces the surprising effect of this \"positively beautiful man\" on the people around him, leading to a final scene that is one of the most powerful in all of world literature. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEveryman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Everyman's Library Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times.","brand":"Everyman's Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44261608259721,"sku":"9780375413926","price":34.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0376\/3057\/4729\/files\/9780375413926_a92e5.jpg?v=1757064873","url":"https:\/\/thebookmarkpr.com\/products\/the-idiot-hc","provider":"The Bookmark Books \u0026 Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}