Fyodor dostoyevsky 18211881 was a russian novelist, journalist, and shortstory writer whose novels crime and punishment and the brothers karamazov. Madame yepanchin is the wife of general yepanchin, a. Petersburg is the very distant lizaveta prokofyevna yepanchin. Buy the idiot penguin classics book online at low prices in india. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. His fits were so frequent then, that they made almost an idiot of him the prince used the expression idiot himself. It was first published serially in the journal the russian messenger in 186869 the title is an ironic reference to the central character of the novel, prince lev nikolayevich myshkin, a young man whose goodness, openhearted simplicity. The idiot is a novel by the 19thcentury russian author fyodor dostoevsky. Enjoy a great reading experience when you buy the kindle edition of this book.
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