The Idiot

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor 1821-1881 (Author). Whitfield, Robert. (Added Author).

Summary: Despite the harsh circumstances besetting his own life, abject poverty, incessant gambling, and the death of his firstborn child, Dostoevsky produced a second masterpiece, The Idiot, just two years after completing Crime and punishment. In it, a saintly man, Prince Myshkin, is thrust into the heart of a society more concerned with wealth, power, and sexual conquest than the ideals of Christianity. Myshkin soon finds himself at the center of a violent love triangle in which a notorious woman and a beautiful young girl become rivals for his affections. Extortion, scandal, and murder follow, testing the wreckage left by human misery to find "man in man."

Record details

Physical Description: electronic
electronic resource
remote
Publisher: [Ashland, Or.] : Blackstone Audiobooks, 2002.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Downloadable audio file. Title from: Title details screen. Unabridged.
Participant or Performer Note:	Read by Robert Whitfield.
System Details Note:	Requires OverDrive Media Console Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 323405 KB). Mode of access: World Wide Web.