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Fyodor Dostoyevsky - The Idiot (Part 01 and 02)

Fyodor Dostoyevsky - The Idiot (Part 01 and 02)

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 The extraordinary child-adult Prince Myshkin, confined for several years in a Swiss sanatorium suffering from severe epilepsy, returns to Russia to claim his inheritance and to find a place in healthy human society.
The teeming St Petersburg community he enters is far from receptive to an innocent like himself, despite some early successes and relentless pursuit by grotesque fortune-hunters. His naive gaucheries give rise to extreme reactions among his new acquaintance, ranging from anguished protectiveness to mockery and contempt.
But even before reaching the city, during the memorable train journey that opens the novel, he has encountered the demonic Rogozhin, the son of a wealthy merchant who is in thrall to the equally doomed Natasha Filippovna: beautiful, capricious and destructively neurotic, she joins with the two weirdly contrasted men in a spiralling dance of death... (Summary by Martin Geeson)

This project is Part 1 & 2 of the 4 part novel
Parts 3 & 4 of the novelCopyright Audiobooks by Librivox
Episodes
  • Part II, Chapter 11

    Part II, Chapter 11
    Feb 22 2026
    43 mins
  • Part II, Chapter 12

    Part II, Chapter 12
    Feb 22 2026
    21 mins
  • Part II, Chapter 1

    Part II, Chapter 1
    Feb 22 2026
    29 mins
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