description: The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky's crowning achievement, is a tale of patricide and family rivalry that embodies the moral and spiritual dissolution of an entire society (Russia in the 1870s). It created a national furor comparable only to the excitement stirred by the publication, in 1866, of Crime and Punishment. To Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov captured the quintessence of Russian character in all its exaltation, compassion, and profligacy. Significantly, the book was on Tolstoy's bedside table when he died. Readers in every language have since accepted Dostoevsky's own evaluation of this work and have gone further by proclaiming it one of the few great novels of all ages and countries.
language: English
title: The Brothers Karamazov
titlecomplete: The Brothers Karamazov
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: 316411
places: Russia
publisher: North Point Press