The Idiot | Fyodor Dostoevsky

Returning to St Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium, the gentle and naive epileptic Prince Myshkin - pays a visit to his distant relative General Yepanchin and proceeds to charm the General, his wife, and his three daughters. But his life is thrown into turmoil when he chances on a photograph of the beautiful Nastasya Filippovna.

Punishment", "The Idiot" and "Demons". If you enjoyed "The Idiot", you might like Anton Chekhov's "Ward No. 6 and Other Stories", also available in "Penguin Classics". "McDuff's language is rich and alive". ("The New York Times Book Review"). "[The Idiot's] ...narrative is so compelling". (Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury).