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The Idiot
Contributor(s): Dostoyevsky, Fyodor (Author), Garnett, Constance (Translator), Brailovsky, Anna (Revised by)
ISBN: 0679642420     ISBN-13: 9780679642428
Publisher: Modern Library
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Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: April 2003
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Annotation: 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, with the corrupt, money-hungry Ganya. In the end, Myshkin's honesty, goodness, and integrity are shown to be unequal to the moral emptiness of those around him. In her revision of the Garnett translation, Anna Brailovsky has corrected inaccuracies wrought by Garnett's drastic anglicization of the novel, restoring as much as possible the syntactical structure of the original.
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Classics
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Psychological
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2002035699
Lexile Measure: 1040
Series: Modern Library Classics
Physical Information: 1.62" H x 5.27" W x 7.97" (1.36 lbs) 720 pages
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 69663
Reading Level: 10.7   Interest Level: Upper Grades   Point Value: 56.0
 
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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, with the corrupt, money-hungry Ganya. In the end, Myshkin s honesty, goodness, and integrity are shown to be unequal to the moral emptiness of those around him. In her revision of the Garnett translation, Anna Brailovsky has corrected inaccuracies wrought by Garnett s drastic anglicization of the novel, restoring as much as possible the syntactical structure of the original."