{"product_id":"idiot-2","title":"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\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The 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.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Richard 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, The Brothers Karamazov,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDemons\u003c\/i\u003e as the definitive Dostoevsky in English.","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Idiot","offer_id":46347209441477,"sku":null,"price":46.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/978-0-375-70224-2.jpg?v=1781144188","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/idiot-2","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}