{"product_id":"the-idiot-1","title":"The Idiot","description":"\u003cb\u003eFyodor Dostoevsky's classic tale of one man's pure innocence in the face of a society obsessed with power, money, and manipulation\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe twenty-six-year-old Prince Myshkin, following a stay of several years in a Swiss sanatorium, returns to Russia to collect an inheritance and \"be among people.\" Even before he reaches home he meets the dark Rogozhin, a rich merchant's son whose obsession with the beautiful Nastasya Filippovna eventually draws all three of them into a tragic denouement. In Petersburg the prince finds himself a stranger in a society obsessed with money, power, and manipulation. Scandal escalates to murder as Dostoevsky traces the surprising effect of this \"positively beautiful man\" on the people around him, leading to a final scene that is one of the most powerful in all of world literature. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRichard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky's masterful translation of \u003ci\u003eThe Idiot \u003c\/i\u003eis destined to stand with their versions of \u003ci\u003eCrime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eDemons\u003c\/i\u003e as the definitive Dostoevsky in English.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":52317708746968,"sku":"9780375702242","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback (6)","offer_id":52344351785176,"sku":"9781853261756","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback (24)","offer_id":52344351817944,"sku":"9780199536399","price":11.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Mass Market Paperbound","offer_id":52344351850712,"sku":"9780553213522","price":6.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0833\/0369\/4552\/files\/imageloader_67eaf712-7f8e-4ecd-be73-52d3c840893a.jpg?v=1787949766","url":"https:\/\/bigredbooks.shop\/products\/the-idiot-1","provider":"Big Red Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}