The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Idiot is an immaculate portrait of innocence tainted by the brutal reality of human greed.

Of The Idiot, Dostoyevsky wrote: "the chief idea of the novel is to portray the positively good man. There is nothing in the world more difficult to do, and especially now. All writers... who have tried to portray the positively good man have always failed... The good is an ideal, but this ideal, both ours and that of civilized Europe, is still far from having been worked out. There is only one positively good man in the world - Christ."

Dell Books 1971 paperback edition in okay condition, see photos.