The Idiot - Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky #577296

Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin finds himself enmeshed in a tangle of love, torn between two women, both involved, in turn, with the corrupt, money-hungry Ganya. In the end, Myshkin’s honesty, goodness, and integrity are shown to be unequal to the moral emptiness of those around him. The Idiot is considered one of the most excoriating, compelling and remarkable books ever written.