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The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Idiot about?
The twenty-six-year-old Prince Myshkin, following a stay of several years in a Swiss sanatorium, returns to Russia to collect an inheritance and be among people. Even before he reaches home he meets the dark Rogozhin, a rich merchant’s son whose obsession with the beautiful Nastasya Filippovna eventually draws all three of them into a tragic denouement. In Petersburg the prince finds himself a stranger in a society obsessed with money, power, and manipulation. Scandal escalates to murder as Dostoevsky traces the surprising effect of this positively beautiful man on the people around him, leading to a final scene that is one of the most powerful in all of world literature.
Who reads The Idiot?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Publisher
- epubBooks Classics
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, World Fiction
- Rating
- 4.18 / 5 (677 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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