The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Idiot

By Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  • Release Date: 1869-01-01
  • Genre: Classics
Score: 4
4
From 655 Ratings

Description

An Apple Books Classic edition.
Bold, romantic, and emotionally explosive, The Idiot follows a kindhearted prince whose sincerity is so rare, the people he encounters don’t know whether they should adore him or destroy him.
When Prince Myshkin returns to Saint Petersburg after years in a Swiss sanitarium, his openness and kindheartedness unsettle a society ruled by power and money. Drawn into the orbit of two women—brilliant, wounded Nastasya Filippovna and spirited Aglaya Epanchin—he finds himself at the heart of a perilous rivalry.
With daring psychological insight and disarming flashes of comedy, Fyodor Dostoyevsky examines what goodness looks like when it’s caught between desire and society’s pressure to conform. The Idiot reveals how easily innocence is mistaken for weakness and how steep the cost can be for those who keep believing in love.

Reviews

  • Genius

    4
    By Bodhiboy65
    Sick, convoluted and fantastic.
  • Понравилось

    5
    By OffenLord
    Спасибо большое Федору Михаиловичу Достоевскому!
  • Edit

    4
    By champ1233456789
    Needs another edit. But it got 4 stars because it’s a good book
  • The idiot

    5
    By william the ruski
    3rd time reading it. Doestoevsky has inhabited my soul for many years and makes me see life very deeply.
  • Gloomy

    3
    By Grumblymule
    The diction is beautiful, the characters developed and narrative original. However the vast tangents F.D. takes (characteristically) combined with the decidedly doomed tone foreshadows a depressing and even anticlimactic ending. Language and intricacy aside, I could not recommend this to anyone unless they desire to feel pity.
  • The Idiot reviewed

    4
    By cheryljessen
    Wow!! What a long book!! Longest I've read to date. The writings for me, I admit, were sometimes hard to understand in some places, however I really enjoyed the book. There was a lot of information, and people who were interesting. I did not expect the ending. I would recommend this book to anyone who can think while reading, and has the knowledge to comprehend and keep up with the story. I would read again.
  • A tragic tale

    3
    By rossandbeth
    Waste. So much promise fretted away, the author stands at the abyss and describes a tale that leaves the reader asking why.
  • The Idiot

    4
    By exasperada
    Two cunning women terrorize a virtue signaling hapless prince.
  • The Idiot

    2
    By Molly Mormom
    Laborious
  • Great book

    4
    By Azucar de Caña
    Loved this book, it changed my mind about Dostoyevsky whom I considered a bit too heavy. This is easy to read and keeps you interested the whole time. Left me thinking a lot about human nature and accountability. The edition/translation itself is not great, misspellings and grammatical errors are found. But it doesn't take from the story.