Prince Lyov Nikolaevich Myshkin is a young, handsome, and open-hearted man of simplicity and virtue—leading many to mistakenly assume he is unintelligent and naïve. But what happens when such a good man meets the selfish and ambitious affairs of St. Petersburg’s aristocracy? In this tale of compassion, romance, jealousy, and violence, the worldly meets the personification of goodness and innocence—and the result leaves a penetrating insight into humanity itself.