Idiot

Product Description <br/>Prince Myshkin has just returned to Russia after several years in a Swiss sanitarium and soon finds himself in a complicated love triangle. Myshkin's honesty, goodness, and integrity are shown to be unequal to the moral emptiness of those around him.This new abridgement was completed exclusively for Mission Books by Russian Studies scholar Thomas Beyer to keep the important religious themes of the novel intact. This edition of The Idiot is an excellent way for the admirer of Dostoevsky to refresh himself, or to introduce Dostoevsky to a friend who has yet to experience the joy of reading his works. Narrated by Simon Vance.<br/> Review <br/>"I think The Idiot to be a masterpiece...a fact of world literature just as important as the densely dramatic Brothers Karamazov or the brilliantly subtle and terrifying Devils." -- "A.S. Byatt"<br/><br/><br/>"Rivals any modern soap opera for complexity."-- "Vancover Sun"<br/> About the Author <br/>Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881) was a Russian novelist, journalist, and short-story writer whose psychological penetration into the darkest recesses of the human heart had a profound and universal influence on the twentieth-century novel. He was born in Moscow, the son of a surgeon. Leaving the study of engineering for literature, he published Poor Folk in 1846. As a member of revolutionary circles in St. Petersburg, he was condemned to death in 1849. A last-minute reprieve sent him to Siberia for hard labor. Returning to St. Petersburg in 1859, he worked as a journalist and completed his masterpiece, Crime and Punishment, as well as other works, including The Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov.<br/><br/><br/>Simon Vance is the critically acclaimed narrator of approximately 400 audiobooks, winner of 27 AudioFile Earphones Awards, and a 12-time Audie Award-winner. He won an Audie in 2006 in the category of Science Fiction and was named the 2011 Best Voice in Biography and History and in 2010 Best Voice in Fiction by AudioFile magazine. <br/> Vance has been a narrator for the past 25 years, and also worked for many years as a BBC Radio presenter and newsreader in London. Some of his best-selling and most praised audiobook performances include Stieg Larsson's<br/>The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Hilary Mantel's<br/>Bring Up the Bodies (an Audie award-winner), Ian Fleming's<br/>Casino Royale, Oscar Wilde's<br/>The Picture of Dorian Gray, Patrick O'Brian's<br/>Master and Commander series (all 21 titles), the new productions of Frank Herbert's original<br/>Dune series, and Rob Gifford's<br/>China Road (an<br/>AudioFile 2007 Book of the Year). Vance lives near San Francisco with his wife and two sons.