| The Idiot Contributor(s): Dostoyevsky, Fyodor (Author), Garnett, Constance (Translator), Brailovsky, Anna (Revised by) |
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ISBN: 0679642420 ISBN-13: 9780679642428 Publisher: Modern Library OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2003 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. |
| Additional Information |
| 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 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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." |