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The Idiot ( pre-reform Russian: Идіотъ; post-reform Russian: Идиот, romanized: Idiót) is a novel by the 19th-century Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. It was first published serially in the journal The Russian Messenger in 1868–69.
- Fyodor M. Dostoyevsky
- 1869
184,897 ratings9,059 reviews. 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.
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May 24, 2024 · Last Updated: May 24, 2024 • Article History. The Idiot, novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, published in Russian as Idiot in 1868–69. The narrative concerns the unsettling effect of the “primitive” Prince Myshkin on the sophisticated, conservative Yepanchin family and their friends.
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May 1, 2001 · The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Read now or download (free!) Similar Books. Readers also downloaded… In Best Books Ever Listings. About this eBook. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.
- Fyodor M. Dostoyevsky
- 1869
Aug 31, 2004 · In Prince Myshkin, Dostoyevsky portrays the purity of “a truly beautiful soul” and explores the perils that innocence and goodness face in a corrupt world. David McDuff's translation brilliantly captures the novel's idiosyncratic and dream-like language and the nervous, elliptic flow of the narrative.
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The Idiot Full Book Summary. Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin, a fair-haired young man in his late twenties and a descendant of one of the oldest Russian lines of nobility, arrives in St. Petersburg on a November morning. He has spent the last four years in a Swiss clinic for treatment of his "idiocy" and epilepsy.
Jun 21, 2021 · The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Idiot, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever.
