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First American edition hard back binding in publisher's original blue | grey cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back, top edge gilt. 8vo. 7�'' x 5''. Contains 620 pp. Light blue crayon name to the front free end paper 'Nazuwoda'?, rubbing of the cloth across the spine ends and corners, surface stains to the covers, hinges firm and not cracked. Member of the P.B.F.A. RUSSIAN [Literature].

The Idiot is one of Fyodor Dostoevsky's masterpieces. It tells the story of the young Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin, who returns to Russia from a sanatorium in Switzerland. Myshkin is a quintessential 'idiot', meant in the sense of an innocent, impressionable, and idealistic character. His return sets off a complex chain of events, which foregrounds Dostoevsky's themes of existential angst, the clash of good and evil, and the life of the Russian aristocracy.