IDIOT, THE（ISBN=9780679642428）

　　Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin finds himself enmeshed in a tangle of love, torn between two women—the notorious kept woman Nastasya and the pure Aglaia—both involved, in turn, with the corrupt, money-hungry Ganya. In the end, Myshkin’s honesty, goodness, and integrity are shown to be unequal to the moral emptiness of those around him. In her revision of the Garnett translation, Anna Brailovsky has corrected inaccuracies wrought by Garnett’s drastic anglicization of the novel, restoring as much as possible the syntactical structure of the original.

　　Anna Brailovsky is a translator and candidate for a Ph.D. in art history at Johns Hopkins University.
　　Joseph Frank is Professor Emeritus of Slavic and Comparative Literature at Princeton University. The first volume of his definitive biography, Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850–1859, won the 1984 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
INYRODUCTION by Foseph Frank
TRANSLATOR'S NOTE by Anna Brailovsky
THE IDIOT
PART ONE
PART Two
PART THREE
PART FOUR
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