num_pages: 640
description: Saintly Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from a Swiss sanitorium and finds himself a stranger in a society obsessed with wealth, power and sexual conquest. He soon becomes entangled in a love triangle with a notorius kept woman, Nastasya, and a beautiful young girl, Aglaya.
language: English
title: The Idiot
titlecomplete: The Idiot
characters: Nastasya Filippovna, Prince Myshkin, Rogozhin
genres: Russia, Historical Fiction, Philosophy, Novels, Literature, Classic Literature, Russian Literature, Classics, Fiction, 19th Century
ratings_count: 173581
places: St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
publisher: Granta Books