The Idiot - Audiobook, by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Dostoevskys most personal and autobiographical novel, The Idiot tests the authors views on goodness against the flaws of a power-hungry society.Prince Myshkin, the novels central character, is good-hearted and pure. When he returns to St. Petersburg to collect a large inheritance after spending years in a Swiss sanatorium in treatment for epilepsy, its clear the intellectuals around him view him as simple and daft. On the way home, Myshkin meets the wealthy Rogozhin, whose obsession with the beauty Nastasya Filippovna draws Myshkin into a terribly tangled web of romance that anchors for the rest of the book. The many courtships and manipulations unfold against the backdrop of a society mark…