The Idiot ( Unabridged Classics) Paperback

Prince Myshkin returns to St Petersburg from a Swiss clinic carrying an honesty that Russian society has no place for, and Dostoevsky builds the novel out of what that honesty costs him. This unabridged Om Books International paperback runs to 624 pages and keeps the full text rather than an edited-down version, so the long drawing-room scenes and the shifts between comedy and catastrophe stay intact. The story moves between money, marriage and reputation, with Nastasya Filippovna and Rogozhin drawing Myshkin into a triangle that neither wealth nor good intentions can settle. Readers coming to nineteenth-century Russian fiction for the first time will find a plainer entry point here than in the author's political novels. This edition covers: • Unabridged text of Dostoevsky's novel in one volume • 624 pages, published by Om Books International • Full-length social scenes kept as written • Suitable as a companion to a literature syllabus For readers of Russian classics, literature students and collectors building a Dostoevsky shelf, available at Boipoka.