The Idiot -- We Can Do It Again! -- Part 2

We are further into The Idiot, and our reading goal is Part 2.

"After his great portrayal of a guilty man in Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky set out in The Idiot to portray a man of pure innocence. The twenty-six-year-old Prince Myshkin, following a stay of several years in a Swiss sanatorium, returns to Russia to collect an inheritance and “be among people.” Even before he reaches home he meets the dark Rogozhin, a rich merchant’s son whose obsession with the beautiful Nastasya Filippovna eventually draws all three of them into a tragic denouement. In Petersburg the prince finds himself a stranger in a society obsessed with money, power, and manipulation. Scandal escalates to murder as Dostoevsky traces the surprising effect of this “positively beautiful man” on the people around him, leading to a final scene that is one of the most powerful in all of world literature."

We are meeting at Printers, 320 California Avenue, Palo Alto (California Avenue Caltrain station). It's exactly one Caltrain station south of Blue Bottle. (The cafe closes at 2 PM but the outdoor seating stays open; just order everything you want by 2 PM.)

Public domain links:
https://gutenberg.org/files/2638/2638-h/2638-h.htm (text)
https://archive.org/details/the-idiot_202104 (flip pages, PDF)
Amazon (available on Kindle):
https://www.amazon.com/Idiot-Vintage-Classics-Fyodor-Dostoevsky/dp/0375702245/
https://www.amazon.com/Idiot-Penguin-Classics-Fyodor-Dostoyevsky/dp/014044792X/
https://www.amazon.com/Idiot-Wordsworth-Classics-Fyodor-Dostoyevsky/dp/1853261750/
Audio books (Librivox):
https://archive.org/details/idiot_mg_librivox (parts 1 and 2)
https://archive.org/details/idiot_part_03_04_jm_1511_librivox
OG image from:
https://alchetron.com/Prince-Myshkin