Description: These CDs will play in any CD player at home or in your car. The Idiot Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821 - 1881)Translated by Eva M. Martin Read in English by Martin Geeson, Alia Makki and Jan Moorehouse Run Time 27 Hours 16 minutes in 27 Audio CDs The extraordinary child-adult Prince Myshkin, confined for several years in a Swiss sanatorium suffering from severe epilepsy, returns to Russia to claim his inheritance and to find a place in healthy human society. The teeming St Petersburg community he enters is far from receptive to an innocent like himself, despite some early successes and relentless pursuit by grotesque fortune-hunters. His naive gaucheries give rise to extreme reactions among his new acquaintance, ranging from anguished protectiveness to mockery and contempt. But even before reaching the city, during the memorable train journey that opens the novel, he has encountered the demonic Rogozhin, the son of a wealthy merchant – who is in thrall to the equally doomed Nastasia Filippovna: beautiful, capricious and destructively neurotic, she joins with the two weirdly contrasted men in a spiraling dance of death… Our Audiobooks are Complete and Unabridged (unless otherwise indicated)Our Audiobooks are always read by real people, never by computers.Please Note: These recorded readings are from the author's original works which are in the public domain. All recordings and artwork are in the public domain and there are no infringements or copyrights. Each track starts with "This is a LibriVox recording...."Although Librivox has graciously made these recordings available to the public domain, they are not associated with the sale of this product. Public domain books A public-domain book is a book with no copyright, a book that was created without a license, or a book where its copyrights expired or have been forfeited. In most countries the of copyright expires on the first day of January, 70 years after the death of the latest living author. The longest copyright term is in Mexico, which has life plus 100 years for all deaths since July 1928. A notable exception is the United States, where every book and tale published before 1926 is in the public domain; American copyrights last for 95 years for books originally published between 1925 and 1978 if the copyright was properly registered and maintained.
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Features: Unabridged
Format: Audio CD
Topic: A man mistakenly assumed to lack intelligence and insight
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Case Type: Paper Sleeve, No Case Included
Language: English
Book Title: The Idiot
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Narrative Type: Fiction
Genre: Romance, Russian Literature
Type: Audiobook