The Idiot

An Apple Books Classic edition.<br /><br />Bold, romantic, and emotionally explosive, <i>The Idiot</i> follows a kindhearted prince whose sincerity is so rare, the people he encounters don’t know whether they should adore him or destroy him. <br /><br />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.<br /><br />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. <i>The Idiot</i> reveals how easily innocence is mistaken for weakness and how steep the cost can be for those who keep believing in love.