TY - BOOK AU - Dostoevsky, Fyodor TI - The Idiot SN - 1-85326-175-0 PB - Wordsworth Editions Ltd KW - Fiction N2 - Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from an asylum in Switzerland. As he becomes embrolled in the frantic amatory and financial intrigues which centre around a cast of brilliantly realised characters and which ultimately lead to tragedy, he emerges as a unique combination of the Christian ideal of perfection and Dostoevsky's own views, affiction and manners ER -