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This is a rare, first edition copy of "THE IDIOT" by Fyodor Dostoevsky. 1913 1st American edition, 1st printing; The Macmillan Company; New York. Constance Garnett translation. Gilt top page edges.Condition:There is a light stain at the lower-inner corners of the covers, and light staining to the spine; sharp corners; 2 tiny cloth tears at the top edge of the spine. Tight binding with no cracks and no loose pages. Bookplate affixed to the front pastedown. The text pages are in terrific condition - clean with only a very light stain at the outer margin of page 66. Some light soiling to the front blank end paper. Light, pea-sized stain at the center of the inner page edges between the title page and opposing end paper. Light stain at the hinge between front and rear end papers and pastedowns. Staining to the bottom edge of the text block.

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.

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