{"product_id":"9780375702242","title":"The Idiot","description":"\u003cb\u003eFyodor Dostoevsky’s classic tale of one man’s pure innocence in the face of a society obsessed with power, money, and manipulation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eRichard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky’s masterful translation of \u003ci\u003eThe Idiot \u003c\/i\u003eis destined to stand with their versions of \u003ci\u003eCrime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eDemons\u003c\/i\u003e as the definitive Dostoevsky in English.","brand":"Fyodor Dostoevsky","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":46224807166140,"sku":"9780375702242","price":25.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0694\/8559\/2764\/files\/BNCImageAPI_bf664e57-4a68-442c-9397-26fccf7316f4.jpg?v=1776889878","url":"https:\/\/wordsquirrelbooks.com\/products\/9780375702242","provider":"Word Squirrel Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}