(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)<br><br>From award-winning translators, a masterful new translation–never before published–of the novel in which Fyodor Dostoevsky set out to portray a truly beautiful soul.<br><br>Just two years after completing <i>Crime and Punishment</i>, Dostoevsky produced a second novel with a very different man at its center. In <i>The Idiot</i>, the saintly Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from a Swiss sanatorium and finds himself a stranger in a society obsessed with wealth, power, and sexual conquest. He soon becomes entangled in a love triangle with a notorious kept woman, Nastasya, and a beautiful young girl, Aglaya. Extortion and scandal escalate to murder, as Dostoevsky's “positively beautiful man” clashes with the emptiness of a society that cannot accommodate his innocence and moral idealism. <i>The Idiot</i> is both a powerful indictment of that society and a rich and gripping masterpiece.