Prince Myshkin returns from Switzerland to St Petersburg without a penny, so disarmingly kind that people take him for a simpleton. He finds himself caught between Nastasya, beautiful and wounded, who throws a hundred thousand roubles into the fire in front of a full drawing room, Aglaya, lively and mocking, and Rogozhin, whose passion makes him dangerous.
Dostoevsky wanted to portray a truly good man and see what the world would do with him. Scandals, inheritances, rivalries: you keep turning the pages to find out how far these characters will go, and the prince stays with you long after the last one.
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