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The Idiot
Overview
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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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780679642428
- ISBN-10: 0679642420
- Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
- Publish Date: April 2003
- Dimensions: 7.97 x 5.27 x 1.62 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.36 pounds
- Page Count: 720
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