EPISODE · Sep 7, 2016 · 15H 44M
The Idiot (Part 01 and 02) (Authored by Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273922 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Idiot (Part 01 and 02) Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky Narrator: Martin Geeson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 44 minutes Release date: September 7, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.9 of Total 104 Ratings of Narrator: 3.97 of Total 37 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: 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 Natasha Filippovna: beautiful, capricious and destructively neurotic, she joins with the two weirdly contrasted men in a spiralling dance of death... (Summary by Martin Geeson)
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/273922 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Idiot (Part 01 and 02) Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky Narrator: Martin Geeson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 44 minutes Release date: September 7, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.9 of Total 104 Ratings of Narrator: 3.97 of Total 37 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: 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 Natasha Filippovna: beautiful, capricious and destructively neurotic, she joins with the two weirdly contrasted men in a spiralling dance of death... (Summary by Martin Geeson)
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