The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

In The Idiot, a saintly man, Prince Myshkin, has returned to St. Petersburg to collect an inheritance, Myshkin.is thrust into the heart of a society more concerned with wealth, power, and sexual conquest than the ideals of Christianity. Myshkin soon finds himself at the center of a violent love triangle in which a notorious woman and a beautiful young girl become rivals for his affections. Extortion, scandal, and murder follow, testing the wreckage left by human misery to find “man in man.”