The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky, W.J. Leatherbarrow
The Idiot

Fyodor Dostoevsky, W.J. Leatherbarrow

652 pages first pub 1869 (editions)

fiction classics literary challenging dark reflective slow-paced
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contemporary Europe while sinking under the weight of Western materialism. It is the portrait of nineteenth-century Russian society in which a "positively good man" clashes with the emptiness of a society that cannot accomodate his moral idealism....

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