The story of a murder committed on principle and of a killer who wishes to set himself outside and above society, this novel is marked by Dostoevsky's own harrowing experience in penal servitude, and yet contains moments of wild humor. A tragedy of Shakespearean force and intensity, Dostoyevsky's drama of parricide and family rivalry chronicles the murder of depraved landowner Fyodor Karamazov and the subsequent investigation and trial.
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I am a spiteful man.