Saintly Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from a Swiss sanitorium and finds himself a stranger in a society obsessed with wealth, power and sexual conquest. He soon becomes entangled in a love triangle with a notorius kept woman, Nastasya, and a beautiful young girl, Aglaya.

Extra material includes Dostoevsky life, Dostoevsky's works, translator's note, and select bibliography.

The idiot -- Extra material.