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The Idiot (Part 01 and 02)

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Martin Geeson
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Ratings
Book
106
Narrator
37
Release Date
September 7, 2016
Duration
15 hours 44 minutes
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)
Reviews
Profile Avatar Anonymous Apr 2020

Narrator was difficult to listen to. Annoying in fact. Story dragged on with no meaning.

Profile Avatar praveen k Dec 2017

My first audio book; thoroughly satisfying.

Profile Avatar William S. Feb 2022

This audiobook is incomplete, it only covers part 1 and 2. I can’t find the next part(s) on the app. So, after spending 15 hours on the book. I need to decide if it’s worth buying another edition with a different narrator. Or, just googling the summary of the final act.

Profile Avatar Woodie T. Nov 2020

Narrator was very much to my liking all the Russian names being very u nfamu,iar made characters difficult to keep straight. You quickly become aware of the talent of the author I am glad to have e enjoyed it.

Profile Avatar Eddy912 Jan 2020

Not a professional narrator.

Profile Avatar Anonymous Apr 2025

Good book but only half of it is available in this recording

Profile Avatar Rondavooo Oct 2024

I very much enjoyed this book, and I loved the narrator. Don’t be like me, though, and think you’ll get satisfaction from it… it has more than two parts, and I can’t find the rest on this app. So it suddenly ended in the middle. Now I’m sad because I can’t finish it without buying the book.

Profile Avatar Anonymous Jun 2024

Dull. Repetitive

Profile Avatar Alastair F. Dec 2023

I liked the narration. I have the book as a paperback, but never got round to reading it, so it's good to have an audiobook version.

Profile Avatar Anonymous Mar 2022

The story is very good, though I don’t think his best. The narrator was very excellent! I loved hearing one narrator all the way through a longer story.

Profile Avatar Anonymous Aug 2021

I've trying to finish reading this book for so long so finding this title in audible format was fabulous!!!!

Profile Avatar Lisa J. Jun 2021

What a good reader! Especially excellent by Librivox standards. I found the book unable to keep me intrigued, however. Wordy, rambling, excessively long with no point or end in sight. I shan't be going on with more 'parts'.

Profile Avatar Anonymous Sep 2020

The narrator read this wonderfully. Very animated.

Profile Avatar Angelissa U. May 2019

Good book, and narration quite slow although nice accent.

Profile Avatar Harjeet S. Jan 2019

a great story,

Profile Avatar Ross M. Nov 2018

Published in 1869, the Socialist movement in pre-communist Russia is eerily similar today in America. Fascinating story. Thanks Audiobooks!

The Idiot (Part 01 and 02)

The Idiot (Part 01 and 02)

Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Read by: Martin Geeson
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