{"product_id":"book-11ah","title":"The Idiot","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePevear and Volokhonsky may be the premier Russian-to-English translators of the era. (The New Yorker)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRichard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky’s masterful translation of \u003ci\u003eThe Idiot\u003c\/i\u003e is destined to stand with their versions of \u003ci\u003eCrime and Punishment\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Brothers Karamazov\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eDemons\u003c\/i\u003e as the definitive Dostoevsky in English.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter his great portrayal of a guilty man in \u003ci\u003eCrime and Punishment\u003c\/i\u003e, Dostoevsky set out in The Idiot to portray a man of pure innocence. The 26-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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis audio edition of \u003ci\u003eThe Idiot\u003c\/i\u003e, masterfully narrated by Alan Turton, is the only recording of Pevear and Volokhonsky's translation of Dostoevsky’s classic work. It was produced and published by Echo Point Books \u0026amp; Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont with engineering by Raconteurs Audio LLP.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCopyright (c) 2001 Translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Recorded by arrangement with Everyman’s Library, an imprint of The Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. (P) (2025) Echo Point Books \u0026amp; Media, LLC\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dreamscape","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":50571315872048,"sku":"BD11ah","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/11ah-Square-cover.jpg?v=1771656829","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-11ah","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}