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Annotated Content This fully annotated edition includes: Historical Context Detailed 20th Century Analysis A Literary Classic Masterpiece that Belongs on Everyone’s Bookshelf! Fyodor Dostoevsky's classic novel, The Idiot, was first serialized in The Russian Messenger between 1868 and 1869. This edition contains Eva Martin's 1915 translation, which is set to become the standard Dostoevsky in English. The title of this novel is a rather ironic reference to its main protagonist, Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin, whose goodness, open-hearted simplicity, and guilelessness lead many people to mistakenly assume he lacks intelligence and insight. Sneak Peek “Well, what, my dear girl? As if you can possibly like it yourself? The heart is the great thing, and the rest is all rubbish—though one must have sense as well. Perhaps sense is really the great thing. Don’t smile like that, Aglaya. I don’t contradict myself. A fool with a heart and no brains is just as unhappy as a fool with brains and no heart. I am one and you are the other, and therefore both of us suffer, both of us are unhappy.” Summary When the epileptic Prince Myshkin, commonly known as the "idiot," returns to St. Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium, he visits his distant relative, General Yepanchin and proceeds to captivate the General and his family. But when he accidentally comes across a portrait of the gorgeous Nastasya Filippovna, his world is turned upside down. He becomes absolutely infatuated and quickly finds himself in a love triangle and entangled in a web of blackmail, deceit, and eventual murder. In The Idiot, Dostoyevsky uncovers the dangers that goodness and innocence encounter in a corrupt society while presenting the purity of a "positively good and beautiful man." A Remarkable Reprint At Timeless Publications, our team has taken every step possible to ensure the original integrity of this book has