The idiot [with ribbon book mark] - fyodor dostoevsky

In The Idiot , the saintly Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from a Swiss sanatorium and finds himself a stranger in a society obsessed with wealth, power, and sexual conquest.

He soon becomes entangled in a love triangle with a notorious kept woman, Nastasya, and a beautiful young girl, Aglaya.

Extortion and scandal escalate to murder, as Dostoevskys positively beautiful man clashes with the emptiness of a society that cannot accommodate his innocence and moral idealism.

The Idiot is both a powerful indictment of that society and a rich and gripping masterpiece.

From award-winning translators, a masterful new translation-never before published-of the novel in which Fyodor Dostoevsky set out to portray a truly beautiful soul.