num_pages: 880
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 (Modern Library)
characters: Mikhail Osipovich Rakitin, Pavel Smerdyakov, Liza Khokhlakov, Nikolai Krassotkin, Katerina Ivanovna Verkhovtseva, Ivan Fyodorovich Karamazov, Agrafena Alexandrovna Svetlova, Katerina Ospovna Khokhlakov, Alexei Fyodorovich Karamazov, Dmitri Fyodorovich Karamazov, Father Zosima, the Elder, Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov, Ilyusha Snegiryov
genres: Fiction, Religion, Philosophy, Classic Literature, Literature, Classics, Novels, 19th Century, Russian Literature, Russia
ratings_count: 316361
places: Russia
publisher: Modern Library