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1900's Russia Social ConditionsWritten by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Read by Jefferson Mays
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged
Length: 27 hrs and 56 mins
Release date: 10-08-14
Publisher: Recorded Books
Translation: Alan Myers, Oxford University Press,
In The Idiot, a saintly man, Prince Myshkin, has returned to St. Petersburg to collect an inheritance, 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.”
Put simply - Dostoevsky tale is a great examination of the shortcomings of people and how we can be better.