Classic & Older Gothic

The Idiot

by Frederick Whishaw

Prince Myshkin returns to St. Petersburg society as a Christ-like innocent whose radical honesty and compassion collide catastrophically with a world of seduction, rivalry, and corrupted idealism. Dostoyevsky orchestrates a tragedy of goodness destroyed by the very beauty and passion it seeks to redeem. A towering exploration of how purity cannot survive in a fallen world.

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