A novel about Prince Myshkin, a kind and guileless young man who returns to Russia after years in a Swiss sanatorium. In St Petersburg society he is drawn into the lives of a proud, tormented woman and a young woman of a respectable family, and into a rivalry with a passionate merchant's son. Dostoevsky sets out to portray a truly good person in a world of money, vanity and desire, and asks what happens when such goodness meets everyday society.
Quotes
A fool with a heart and no brains is just as unhappy as a fool with brains and no heart.