The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky torrent

Category: Classic, Literature, Novel
Language: English
Keywords: Literature Russia Classic
Written by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Read by Robert Whitfield
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Listening Length: 22 hours and 27 minutes

“My intention is to portray a really beautiful soul.” - Dostoevsky

In The Idiot, a saintly man, Prince Myshkin, is thrust into the heart of a society more concerned with wealth, power, and sexual conquest than the ideals of Christianity. Myshkin soon finds himself at the center of a violent love triangle in which a notorious woman and a beautiful young girl become rivals for his affections. Extortion, scandal, and murder follow, testing the wreckage left by human misery to find “man in man.”

The Idiot is a quintessentially Russian novel, one that penetrates the complex psyche of the Russian people. “They call me a psychologist,” wrote Dostoevsky.

“That is not true. I’m only a realist in the higher sense; that is, I portray all the depths of the human soul.”