num_pages: 796
description: The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the “wicked and sentimental” Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his three sons―the impulsive and sensual Dmitri; the coldly rational Ivan; and the healthy, red-cheeked young novice Alyosha. Through the gripping events of their story, Dostoevsky portrays the whole of Russian life, is social and spiritual striving, in what was both the golden age and a tragic turning point in Russian culture.This award-winning translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky remains true to the verbal inventiveness of Dostoevsky’s prose, preserving the multiple voices, the humor, and the surprising modernity of the original. It is an achievement worthy of Dostoevsky’s last and greatest novel.
language: English
title: The Brothers Karamazov
titlecomplete: The Brothers Karamazov
characters: Alexei Fyodorovich Karamazov, Pavel Smerdyakov, Dmitri Fyodorovich Karamazov, Liza Khokhlakov, Mikhail Osipovich Rakitin, Ilyusha Snegiryov, Father Zosima, the Elder, Katerina Ivanovna Verkhovtseva, Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov, Agrafena Alexandrovna Svetlova, Ivan Fyodorovich Karamazov, Katerina Ospovna Khokhlakov, Nikolai Krassotkin
genres: Classic Literature, Religion, Literature, Russia, Philosophy, Novels, Russian Literature, Fiction, 19th Century, Classics
ratings_count: 356153
places: Russia
series: The Brothers Karamazov
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux