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The Idiot

By Fyodor Dostoevsky, William Leatherbarrow (Introduction)
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By Fyodor Dostoevsky, William Leatherbarrow (Introduction)
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The foil to Crime and Punishment, The Idiot is Dostoevsky (still) at his shimmering best. This is the story of pure innocence in a world that is anything but. It’s sharp, insightful and immensely entertaining.

The Idiot (1868), written under the appalling personal circumstances Dostoevsky endured while travelling in Europe, not only reveals the author's acute artistic sense and penetrating psychological insight, but also affords his most powerful indictment of a Russia struggling to emulate contemporary Europe while sinking under the weight of Western materialism. It is the portrait of nineteenth-century Russian society in which a "positively good man" clashes with the emptiness of a society that...

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