The Idiot
- ISBN-10
- 1853261750
- ISBN-13
- 9781853261756
- Series
- The Idiot
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 578
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1996
- Publisher
- Wordsworth Editions
- Author
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Description
Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from an asylum in Switzerland. Embroiled in the intrigues which centre around the ruling classes, he emerges as a combination of the Christian ideal and Dostoevsky's own views. The world created by the ruling classes cannot accommodate the goodness of this idiot.
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