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The Idiot

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1869
Originally in
Originally in Russian
Pages
Pages 600

A guileless epileptic prince returns to Petersburg society and treats everyone with perfect compassion, and his goodness, caught between two proud women, precipitates the catastrophe it cannot prevent.

Beauty will save the world.
The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoevsky

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