{"product_id":"the-idiot-dostoyevsky-fyodor","title":"The Idiot Dostoyevsky, Fyodor","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThe most autobiographical novel by the author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eCrime and Punishment\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Brothers Karamazov—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eand the namesake of Elif Batuman’s debut novel,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Idiot\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\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\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Read Room","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":59453808312606,"sku":null,"price":480.0,"currency_code":"BDT","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":59453808345374,"sku":null,"price":610.0,"currency_code":"BDT","in_stock":true},{"title":"eBook","offer_id":59453808378142,"sku":null,"price":150.0,"currency_code":"BDT","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1076\/7515\/6766\/files\/81R0hEWva1L._SL1500.jpg?v=1781287685","url":"https:\/\/readroombd.com\/products\/the-idiot-dostoyevsky-fyodor","provider":"Read Room","version":"1.0","type":"link"}