The idiot

Twenty-six-year-old Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin returns to Russia after spending several years at a Swiss sanatorium. Scorned by the society of St. Petersburgh for his idiocy, generosity and innocence, he finds himself at the centre of a struggle between a beautiful kept woman and a gorgeous, vi...

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Main Author: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881
Other Authors: Pevear, Richard, 1943-, Volokhonsky, Larissa
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Russian
Published: New York : Vintage Books, 2003, ©2001.
Edition:1st Vintage Classics edition.
Series:Vintage classics.
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