Idiot

Contributor(s): Dostoyevsky, Fyodor (Author), Pevear, Richard (Translator), Volokhonsky, Larissa (Translator)

ISBN: 9780375702242

Publisher: Vintage

Binding Types:

Paperback

$19.00

Digicover (1-4 copies)

$31.95 (Final Price)

Readerbound (5-99 copies)

$30.75 (100+ copies: $30.00)

List/retail price:

$19.00

Pub Date: July 8, 2003

Dewey: FIC

Lexile Code: 1040

Features: Bibliography, Price on Product

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 1.10" H x 8.24" L x 5.26" W ( 1.05 lbs) 656 pages

BISAC Categories:

Fiction | Classics | Literary | Sagas

Series: Vintage Classics

Accelerated Reader® Info

Quiz #:0000069663 ( Idiot)

Reading level: 10.70

Interest level: UG

Point value: 56.0

Descriptions, Reviews, etc.

Description: In his second novel, Dostoevsky sought to portray "a positively beautiful man, " a saintly paragon in contrast to the murderer Raskolnikov of his first novel. Through Myshkin's struggle, in which his corruption seems fated, Dostoevsky offers a brilliant indictment of a society that cannot countenance virtue.

Review Quotes: Praise for Pevear and Volokhonsky's translation of Crime and Punishment

"Reaches as close to Dostoevsky's Russian as is possible in English. . . . The original's force and frightening immediacy is captured. . . . The Pevear and Volokhonsky translation will become the standard English version." -Chicago Tribune