Welcome to the Study Guide for THE IDIOT.

This page was prepared by

Surendra Thapa and Yasuhito Une

of Middlebury College.

I. Summaries

1. Plot Summary to Book I

2. Plot Summary to Book II

3. Plot Summary to Book III

4. Plot Summary to Book IV

II. The Characters

List of the Characters

Sketches of the Important Characters.

III. And More...

Historial Background of the Novel

Making of The Idiot

IV. Middlebury College Russian Department.

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