The Idiot

Dostoevsky's tragic novel of a guileless, Christlike prince set loose in a grasping St Petersburg society, where his innocence dazzles, disturbs and is finally broken.

At a glance Dostoevsky set himself the hardest of tasks in this novel, to depict a genuinely good… What it's about The Idiot follows Prince Myshkin, who returns to Russia after years… His guilelessness draws others to him and exposes them to themselves, and he is caught… Around them swirl gamblers, schemers and desperate souls, each measured against the…

The Idiot follows Prince Myshkin, who returns to Russia after years abroad being treated for illness, an open, trusting, almost holy innocent thrown among the calculating, passionate and cynical people of St Petersburg…