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After his great portrayal of a guilty man in Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky set out in The Idiot to portray a man of pure innocence. The 26-year-old Prince Myshkin, following a stay of several years in a Swiss sanatorium, returns to Russia to collect an inheritance and “be among people”. Even before he reaches home, he meets the dark Rogozhin, a rich merchant’s son whose obsession with the beautiful Nastasya Filippovna eventually draws all three of them into a tragic denouement.

Kieran's love life didn't get off to a good start. He threw up after his first kiss; he was beaten up by the first girl to have a crush on him; and after a mix-up with his first love letter, he could only sit back and watch as the entire school mistook him for a brutal murderer. By the time the hormones kicked in, Kieran had all but given up on love, but the worst was yet to come.

After being treated for epilepsy at a Swiss sanatorium, Prince Muishkin returns to St. Petersburg to reconnect with a wealthy distant relative and her family. Guileless and charming, Muishkin endears himself to everyone he meets, and they place him in the center of high society’s conflicts. Soon Muishkin becomes caught in a sphere of jealousy, betrayal, extortion, and murder. And he finds his loyalties divided between two women - one needing love, the other salvation.

The Essential Fyodor Dostoyevsky Collection brings together the definitive works of one of literature’s most profound psychological explorers. Through gripping drama, penetrating philosophy, and unforgettable characters, Dostoyevsky examines guilt, faith, freedom, suffering, and the mysteries of existence with unmatched intensity. This collection presents his greatest novels, novellas, and nonfiction—an ideal gateway for new readers and an indispensable treasury for devoted admirers.

An upper-middle class peasant inherits his father's farm, which he hopes to pass on to his children. When the twin boys are born, there is joy in the family until they realize that they are severely retarded - to use the term of the day, idiots. And then another son is born, also an idiot. In desperation, Jean Pierre joins the church, which he has no use for, and a daughter is born. Another idiot. Jean Pierre becomes even more angry and abusive to his wife, whom he blames for producing four idiots.

Just two years after completing Crime and Punishment, which explored the mind of a murderer, Fyodor Dostoevsky produced another masterpiece: The Idiot. This time the author portrays a truly beautiful soul and one of Dostoevsky's greatest characters---Prince Muishkin, a saintly, Christ-like, yet deeply human figure. The story begins when Muishkin arrives on Russian soil after a stay in a Swiss sanatorium.

Obsessed by what they are certain is the impending apocalypse, a mismatched trio set off on a globetrotting road-trip in the latest feel-good adventure from the internationally bestselling author of The Hundred Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared. In the fading days of...

Diese Geschichte zeigt tiefes Verständnis für die Nöte der Protagonisten, ohne anzuklagen oder es besser zu wissen: Zwei Verlorene irren durch eine aus dem Tritt gekommene Welt. Sie wollen neu beginnen, unterstützen und lieben sich. Clemens wird von seiner Partnerin betrogen und findet sich als mittelloser Schriftsteller auf der Straße wieder. Dort trifft er Sarah, die vor ihrem gewalttätigen Ehemann flieht. Gemeinsam erleben sie die unterschiedlichsten Erscheinungen der Corona-Krise: trennende Grenzzäune, geschlossene Läden und hitzige Diskussionen.

Director David Fishelson transforms Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov and The Idiot into spellbinding drama that illuminates both titanic novels. In The Brothers Karamazov, the passionate brothers spring to life, led by their roué of a father ¿ who entertains himself by drinking, womanizing, and pitting his three sons against each other. The men have plenty to fight over, including the alluring Grushenka.

Sie stehen im Supermarkt, in der U-Bahn oder an der Brüstung eines Hochhauses - Menschen! Man kann ihnen nicht entkommen und sie haben alle etwas gemein: Sie tun irgendetwas, meist nervt es... In diesem sarkastischen Pamphlet verleiht Alexander Prinz, besser bekannt als Der Dunkle Parabelritter, seinem Frust über unsere Spezies Ausdruck. Er kommentiert die verschiedenen Abschnitte unseres Lebens, philosophiert über die Liebe und rechnet mit der Gesellschaft ab. Welche Kindheitstraumata sind vielleicht doch ganz nützlich? Kann der Spagat zwischen On- und Offlinewelt gelingen?

El inmenso novelista ruso Fedor Dostoyevsky, autor de algunas de las novelas que mas profundamente exploran las intimidades del alma humana, en El Idiota presenta a un personaje inolvidable, Mishkin, un joven de la nobleza, sin experiencia, con gran fe en todos y una bondad innata, todo lo cual combinado hace creer a muchos que se trata de un debil mental.

The dummies initially resisted the rescue because they weren't done shopping.

[Contains explicit content] Colleagues remember a fallen brother as a doofus who didn’t know basic safety precautions.