num_pages: 1045
description: Librarian's Note: An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found hereIn 1880 Dostoevsky completed The Brothers Karamazov, the literary effort for which he had been preparing all his life. Compelling, profound, complex, it is the story of a patricide and of the four sons who each had a motive for murder: Dmitry, the sensualist, Ivan, the intellectual; Alyosha, the mystic; and twisted, cunning Smerdyakov, the bastard child. Frequently lurid, nightmarish, always brilliant, the novel plunges the reader into a sordid love triangle, a pathological obsession, and a gripping courtroom drama. But throughout the whole, Dostoevsky searhes for the truth--about man, about life, about the existence of God. A terrifying answer to man's eternal questions, this monumental work remains the crowning achievement of perhaps the finest novelist of all time.
language: English
title: The Brothers Karamazov
titlecomplete: The Brothers Karamazov
characters: Alexei Fyodorovich Karamazov, Pavel Smerdyakov, Agrafena Alexandrovna Svetlova, Ilyusha Snegiryov, Katerina Ospovna Khokhlakov, Ivan Fyodorovich Karamazov, Dmitri Fyodorovich Karamazov, Nikolai Krassotkin, Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov, Mikhail Osipovich Rakitin, Katerina Ivanovna Verkhovtseva, Father Zosima, the Elder, Liza Khokhlakov
genres: Russia, Religion, Philosophy, Novels, Literature, Classic Literature, Russian Literature, Classics, Fiction, 19th Century
ratings_count: 316320
places: Russia
publisher: Bantam Classics