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Fyodor Dostoyevsky: The Idiot

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky: The Idiot

Fyodor Dostoyevsky: The Idiot

Read by Constantine Gregory

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Prince Lef Nicolaievitch Muishkin is one of the great characters in Russian literature. Is he a saint or just naïve? Is he an idealist or, as many in General Epanchin’s society feel, an ‘idiot’?

Certainly his return to St Petersburg after years in a Swiss clinic has a dramatic effect on the beautiful Aglaya, youngest of the Epanchin daughters, and on the charismatic but wilful Nastasia Philipovna. As he paints a vivid picture of Russian society, Dostoyevsky shows how principles conflict with emotions – with tragic results.

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Fyodor Mikhail Dostoyevsky: The Idiot (Unabridged)
Work length24:55:17
The Idiot
Track length8:31
Such omniscient gentlemen are to be found…
Track length9:06
'But perhaps I do know!' said the official…
Track length9:40
Chapter 2
Track length12:55
The prince's conversation seemed simple enough…
Track length11:52
Chapter 3
Track length6:31
'Tell me, how do you intend to live meanwhile…'
Track length7:54
Myshkin heard all this conversation…
Track length6:00
On the thick sheet of vellum…
Track length8:48
Chapter 4
Track length11:55
It happened once at the beginning of winter…
Track length8:03
Five years of life in Petersburg had followed…
Track length7:41
Nastasya Filippovna's answer…
Track length9:10
Chapter 5
Track length10:03
Alexandra and Aglaia sat down on a little sofa…
Track length10:14
'There may be two opinions about life in prison,'…
Track length7:57
'Tell us about the execution,' Adelaida interrupted.
Track length9:32
Chapter 6
Track length8:08
'Now this is what happened…'
Track length9:20
'But it was after the funeral…'
Track length7:03
Chapter 7
Track length6:42
As soon as Ganya was left alone…
Track length9:32
Myshkin turned round quickly…
Track length12:04
Chapter 8
Track length11:29
The other gentleman…
Track length10:29
Varya came back into the room…
Track length9:36
Chapter 9
Track length11:25
Ferdyshtchenko took hold of the general…
Track length11:32
Chapter 10
Track length8:40
Nastasya Filippovna suddenly laughed…
Track length7:22
Chapter 11
Track length11:16
Ganya smiled sarcastically to himself…
Track length6:18
Chapter 12
Track length12:56
The meeting with Kolya…
Track length10:40
Chapter 13
Track length11:33
At the door of the drawing room…
Track length12:47
Chapter 14
Track length6:24
'It has happened to me, friends, as to everyone…'
Track length6:47
With an extraordinary air of dignity…
Track length6:25
'As soon as I arrived I sent the bouquet up…'
Track length7:40
Chapter 15
Track length13:09
This, friends, is a hundred thousand rubles,'…
Track length11:02
Chapter 16
Track length8:40
Ptitisyn bent his head and looked on the ground…
Track length9:23
'Good heavens!' was heard on all sides.
Track length9:06
Part Two
Track length7:50
A month after Myshkin's departure…
Track length6:34
Lizaveta Prokofyevna too had received…
Track length6:08
After Myshkin's departure Kolya Ivolgin…
Track length7:58
Chapter 2
Track length7:43
Everybody laughed.
Track length6:34
'I've been lying here for the last three days…'
Track length7:22
And Lebedyev took Myshkin's hand…
Track length10:12
Chapter 3
Track length8:04
It was a big room, lofty and dark…
Track length8:55
'I tell you it was so,' Rogozhin repeated quietly…
Track length10:17
'I am very glad of that, Parfyon,' said Myshkin…
Track length6:05
Chapter 4
Track length13:54
Chapter 5
Track length9:21
He thought this, sitting on a seat under a tree…
Track length6:11
Yes, he was already in the Petrogradski Disctrict…
Track length10:25
There was a moment at the end of that long…
Track length7:27
Chapter 6
Track length9:33
At that moment Kolya entered the verandah…
Track length10:54
Lizaveta Prokofyevna flushed.
Track length14:34
Chapter 7
Track length7:13
Mutual courtesies were exchanged…
Track length7:22
The excitement and expectation was general…
Track length7:57
Chapter 8
Track length9:57
'That - that passes my comprehension!'
Track length6:19
When Kolya had finished reading…
Track length7:51
After the speech made by Lebedyevs' nephew…
Track length9:10
'You are not simply naive, prince, you go beyond…'
Track length9:26
Chapter 9
Track length9:37
'This is really insupportable!' Lebedyev's nephew…
Track length9:50
The girls stood on one side, almost scared…
Track length11:01
Chapter 10
Track length7:02
'Now he is choking!' Lizaveta Prokofyevna…
Track length8:23
'It's late!' Ippolit suddenly got up…
Track length7:28
Lizaveta Prokofyevna spoke with excitement…
Track length9:19
Chapter 11
Track length8:26
From Vera Lebedyev, Myshkin learned…
Track length8:14
Myshkin began at last to feel not exactly sorry…
Track length8:54
Late in the evening, after ten o'clock…
Track length8:07
Chapter 12
Track length14:10
Part Three
Track length6:40
At the beginning of our narrative we mentioned…
Track length12:45
Myshkin really was almost pale…
Track length10:00
He broke off in confusion.
Track length11:03
Chapter 2
Track length8:15
Yevgeny Pavlovitch Radomsky seemed…
Track length9:48
On the way from the station to the bandstand…
Track length9:35
Chapter 3
Track length7:24
Ivan Fyodorovitch, himself, came downstairs…
Track length8:50
Left alone at the crossroads…
Track length8:17
The crunch of slow footsteps on the sand…
Track length9:41
Chapter 4
Track length6:35
'You've come about something else, too…?'
Track length8:24
Gavril Ardalionovitch was in a particularly…
Track length9:56
'It may be true, gentlemen,' observed Myshkin…
Track length11:40
Chapter 5
Track length7:30
Vera looked in alarm at the coin…
Track length4:56
The reading began at last.
Track length10:08
'Gentlemen,' said Ippolit, suddenly breaking off…
Track length9:36
Chapter 6
Track length9:03
'There are people who derive extraordinary…'
Track length11:06
'"Anyone who attacks individual charity,"…'
Track length10:28
'The picture represented Christ…'
Track length8:37
Chapter 7
Track length9:07
There is, in extreme cases, a pitch…
Track length10:13
He quickly caught up a glass from the table…
Track length12:07
Chapter 8
Track length8:21
Aglaia suddenly crimsoned with pleasure.
Track length8:20
She did not turn red this time, but turned pale…
Track length12:54
Chapter 9
Track length14:48
'I must admit, Lebedyev, this distresses me…'
Track length7:47
'What folly!' Myshkin said, almost angrily…
Track length6:50
'For the sake of clearness, I will explain to you…'
Track length6:04
Chapter 10
Track length10:28
At last Myshkin came out of the darkness…
Track length5:27
Part Four
Track length9:12
Gavril Ardalionovitch had taken the first step…
Track length11:37
Ganya listened very attentively…
Track length11:09
Chapter 2
Track length3:33
At that moment Kolya set a chair for him…
Track length7:20
Ippolit too felt a qualm…
Track length10:56
Chapter 3
Track length9:12
Myshkin observed his visitor, if not with surprise…
Track length9:02
Lebedyev put on a dignified air.
Track length11:01
Chapter 4
Track length7:28
'But did you really…' Myshkin began…
Track length7:52
The general, of course, had been repeating…
Track length8:14
'All that is extremely interesting,'…
Track length12:32
Chapter 5
Track length9:24
The upshot of it was that they must keep calm…
Track length12:28
'This is an important matter, though…'
Track length12:09
'And again, that evening, there was something…'
Track length10:15
Chapter 6
Track length9:46
Myshkin was in a fever all night.
Track length6:11
As he was continually mixing one thing up…
Track length9:49
Sitting down and looking round, he for his part…
Track length12:55
Chapter 7
Track length11:27
The old man evidently wanted to study Myshkin…
Track length9:27
But at this point an incident took place…
Track length9:49
She was on the verge of being angry…
Track length11:49
Chapter 8
Track length8:36
Just half an hour after the Epanchins' visit…
Track length11:59
Ippolit went out.
Track length11:53
Aglaia paused for a moment as though amazed.
Track length11:47
Chapter 9
Track length8:01
Thus, we know for a fact that during that…
Track length9:45
At this point, without mincing matters…
Track length12:47
Chapter 10
Track length4:11
Next day Keller called on Myshkin…
Track length14:38
On the day before the wedding…
Track length14:34
Chapter 11
Track length8:39
Rogozhin had not come back…
Track length9:46
The key was already in his hand.
Track length6:32
'For if,' Rogozhin began…
Track length10:30
Chapter 12: Conclusion
Track length9:12
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