The Idiot  (English, Paperback, Dostoevsky Fyodor)

This particular book is really value for money, at such a moderate price we get to read what is probably one of Dostoevsky's masterpiece.

The story goes as Prince Myshkin our story's protagonist is a Christ like character and at the same time child like innocent in what Dostoevsky depicts as an unchristian world corroded by moral corruption and spiritual desolation. Amidst these situations Myshkin helps everyone he meets and always holds the needs of others above his own. Later we see how h...

People who don't like articulate ways of writing don't buy this book. But omnivorous like me who like reading almost everything (Except mobile bills of course) will love this book. Author is a psychologist. He is a master in psychiatry. Other than only Russian names could be a small hurdle initially other than that it is a nice work.
Printing quality is not bad.

I was cajoled into reading this by one of my friends and I have thanked him umpteen times since then. Regarded as one of the best and most important works in nineteenth century literature, this has to rank amongst the best in Dostoyevski's oeuvre. In this work of his, he portrays a truly beautiful soul through the protagonist,Prince Lev Nikolaevich Myshkin, an epileptic considered by others as an Idiot lacking common sense and basic savoir-faire. The novel explores the problems such a simple...