The theme which obsessed Dostoyevsky during his entire creative life found its fullest expression in his novel, The Idiot.  In it he realized, as no psychologist or novelist has before or since, that strange admixture of exaltation and degradation, the virtues of the saint and the defects of the simpleton, to be found in an individual soul. The conflict created by man's divine possibilities thwarted by his all-too-human limitations commands the breathless interest of readers of every possible taste and temperament.  The Idiot ranks with The Brothers Karamazov as one of Dostoyevsky's supreme achievements.  A companion volume in the Modern Library series to The Brothers Karamazov (G 36), The Idiot is also complete and unabridged in the Constance Garnett translation. Eight full-page gravure illustrations and numerous line drawings by Boardman Robinson capture the spirit of Dostoyevsky's most penetrating psychological novel.