{"product_id":"the-idiot","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":"Default Title","offer_id":53614388445550,"sku":"9780375702242","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0984\/1007\/0382\/files\/imageloader_1b62021c-b5f3-4839-8279-bf8003590113.jpg?v=1775849702","url":"https:\/\/tenderbuttonsbooks.com\/products\/the-idiot","provider":"Tender Buttons Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}