num_pages: 796
description: Dostoevsky’s towering reputation as one of the handful of thinkers who forged the modern sensibility has sometimes obscured the purely novelistic virtues–brilliant characterizations, flair for suspense and melodrama, instinctive theatricality–that made his work so immensely popular in nineteenth-century Russia. The Brothers Karamazov, his last and greatest novel, published just before his death in 1881, chronicles the bitter love-hate struggle between the outsized Fyodor Karamazov and his three very different sons. It is above all the story of a murder, told with hair-raising intellectual clarity and a feeling for the human condition unsurpassed in world literature.This award-winning translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky–the definitive version in English–magnificently captures the rich and subtle energies of Dostoevsky’s masterpiece.
language: English
title: The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue
titlecomplete: The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue
characters: Liza Khokhlakov, Ivan Fyodorovich Karamazov, Mikhail Osipovich Rakitin, Agrafena Alexandrovna Svetlova, Pavel Smerdyakov, Father Zosima, the Elder, Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov, Katerina Ivanovna Verkhovtseva, Dmitri Fyodorovich Karamazov, Nikolai Krassotkin, Alexei Fyodorovich Karamazov, Ilyusha Snegiryov, Katerina Ospovna Khokhlakov
genres: Classics, Philosophy, Religion, Russia, Novels, Russian Literature, Classic Literature, Literature, 19th Century, Fiction
ratings_count: 316391
places: Russia
publisher: North Point Press