The Idiot
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
988 pages~16 hrs
“In a world of wolves, the lamb is called an idiot.”
When the saintly Prince Myshkin returns to the cutthroat world of St. Petersburg high society, his radical kindness is mistaken for idiocy by a city fueled by greed and obsession. Caught in a web of scandal and destructive passion, he must discover if a truly good man can survive in a world defined by its vices.
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