{"product_id":"the-idiot","title":"The Idiot","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat if your greatest kindness makes you the easiest person in the room to destroy?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrince Lev Myshkin returns to Russia after years of treatment for epilepsy in Switzerland. He has no money, no plan, and no skill at lying. In Petersburg society, where rank and wealth shape every encounter, his honesty draws people close—and makes them doubt his mind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMyshkin wants to ease the pain he sees in others. But Nastasya Filippovna’s wounded pride, Rogozhin’s jealous passion, and Aglaya Epanchin’s longing for honest feeling pull him into competing claims of love. Fyodor Dostoyevsky turns these encounters into a searching question: can compassion help people without becoming another source of hurt?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWhat you'll discover\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAn outsider without armor\u003c\/strong\u003e – Meet a prince who speaks to servants and generals with the same disarming openness.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLove tangled with pity\u003c\/strong\u003e – Explore the uneasy distance between wanting to save someone and knowing what they need.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eA society keeping score\u003c\/strong\u003e – Enter drawing rooms where money, ambition, and shame press beneath the surface of polite talk.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePride behind the beauty\u003c\/strong\u003e – Discover Nastasya Filippovna, caught between a longing for love and contempt for herself.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eGoodness under pressure\u003c\/strong\u003e – Weigh the prince’s compassion against a world that often mistakes gentleness for weakness.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerfect for readers who love novels of ideas and strong feeling, are curious about Russian life, and want to question whether goodness can survive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOpen the first page and meet Myshkin on the train into Petersburg.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Library of Alexandria Press","offers":[{"title":"eBook","offer_id":58289234018652,"sku":"LOA-C62-EB","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audiobook — Coming soon","offer_id":58289234051420,"sku":"LOA-C62-AU","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":58289234084188,"sku":"LOA-C62-PB","price":25.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":58289234116956,"sku":"LOA-C62-HC","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1027\/9442\/8764\/files\/loa-top-00062-en_7a938b43-676f-4dcd-8b27-34aa693ed9db.jpg?v=1792697455","url":"https:\/\/libraryofalexandria.com\/it\/products\/the-idiot","provider":"The Library of Alexandria","version":"1.0","type":"link"}