# The Idiot

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- Authors: [Fyodor Dostoyevsky](https://www.bookquiver.com/fyodor-dostoyevsky)
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- ISBN: 978-01-9953-639-9
- Pages: 688
- Published: 2008-06-12
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Into a compellingly real portrait of nineteenth-century Russian society, Dostoevsky introduces his ideal hero, the saintly Prince Myshkin. The tensions subsequently unleashed by the hero's innocence, truthfulness, and humility betray the inadequacy of his moral idealism and disclose the spiritual emptiness of a society that cannot accommodate him.