TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dostoyevsky Fyodor
TI  - The idiot
SN  - 9780140447927
AV  - PG3326 
PY  - 2004///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Penguin Books
N2  - Inspired by an image of Christ's suffering, Dostoyevsky set out to create a protagonist with "a truly beautiful soul" and to trace the fate of such an individual as he comes into contact with the brutal reality of contemporary society. The novel begins when the innocent epileptic Prince Myshkin - the 'idiot' - arrives in St Petersburg and finds himself drawn into a web of violent and passionate relationships that leads to blackmail, betrayal and eventually murder
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