Penguin Select Classics: The Idiot

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Prince Myshkin comes back to Russia with a character almost completely untouched by cynicism, selfishness, and social ambition. His genuine kindness and compassion make him appear strangely out of place in a society dominated by vanity, greed, pride, and manipulation.

After arriving in St Petersburg, Myshkin becomes entangled with two very different women: Nastasya Filippovna, a passionate and deeply troubled woman, and Aglaia Epanchina, who represents a different kind of innocence and idealism. Their complicated relationships develop into a powerful story of love, jealousy, obsession, pride, and suffering. P

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As Myshkin tries to remain compassionate toward everyone around him, his goodness is repeatedly tested. The novel asks a profound question: Can a truly good and innocent person survive in a world shaped by selfishness, cruelty, and human weakness?

Rather than being simply a story about an innocent man, The Idiot is a deep examination of morality, human psychology, faith, beauty, suffering, and the contradictions within human nature.