| The Idiot Contributor(s): Martin, Eva (Translator), Sir Angels (Editor), Fyodor Mikhailovich, Dostoyevsky (Author) |
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ISBN: 1544753845 ISBN-13: 9781544753843 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $21.85 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections |
| Lexile Measure: 1040 |
| Physical Information: 1.32" H x 6" W x 9" (1.90 lbs) 656 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin, a young man in his mid-twenties and a descendant of one of the oldest Russian lines of nobility, is on a train to Saint Petersburg on a cold November morning. He is returning to Russia having spent the past four years in a Swiss clinic for treatment of a severe epileptic condition. On the journey Myshkin meets a young man of the merchant class, Parfyon Semyonovich Rogozhin, and is struck by his passionate intensity, particularly in relation to a woman-the dazzling society beauty Nastassya Filippovna-with whom he is obsessed. Rogozhin has just inherited a very large fortune from his dead father and he intends to use it to pursue the object of his desire. Joining in their conversation is a civil servant named Lebedyev - an "omniscient" gentleman with a profound knowledge of social trivia and gossip. |