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The Idiot
About This Book
The Idiot is a novel by the 19th-century Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It was first published serially in the journal The Russian Messenger in 1868-9.The title is an ironic reference to the central character of the novel, Prince (Knyaz) Lev Nikolaevich Myshkin, a young man whose goodness and op...
More by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский
Reading Time Estimates
10h 36m
slow reader
180 WPM
7h 38m
average reader
250 WPM
5h 27m
fast reader
350 WPM
📖 114,400 words📅 16 days at 30 min/day
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7 h 38 min
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8 h 28 min
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Audio 2x
6 h 21 min
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