The Idiot

Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s novel of Prince Myshkin, a gentle and guileless young man who returns to St. Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium and is caught between the proud, wounded Nastasya Filippovna and the young Aglaya Epanchin, with tragic results. It was first published in Russian in 1868–69. This edition follows Eva Martin’s public-domain English translation (1914).