The Idiot: A Novel in Four Parts

586 pp. 9 1/2 x 6 3/4. Original red cloth hardcover binding, beveled edges, gilt spine lettering with decorative rules above and beneath title, red top page ridge. Full-page illustrations by Boardman Robinson. "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."