The Brothers Karamazov
By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky ; translated by Constance Garnett ; edited and with a foreword by Manuel Komroff ; new afterword by John Bayley.
Contributors: Garnett, Constance Black, 1862-1946.; Komroff, Manuel, 1890-
Publisher: Signet Classic
Published: 1999 June
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Translated from: rus
Translation of: Братья Карамазовы
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages: 735
ISBN-13: 9780451527349
Copyright date: 1999
Subjects: Fathers and sons -- Fiction; Brothers -- Fiction; Russia -- Social life and customs -- 1533-1917 -- Fiction
Description: Dostoyevsky's passionate concern for people and his intense desire to grasp the meaning of life led him to explore the secret depths of humanity's struggles and sins. No action or thought was ever too corrupt or too inhuman for his understanding. The Brothers Karamazov was his last and greatest work. This extraordinary novel tells the dramatic story of four brothers-Dmitri, pleasure-seeking, impatient, unruly...Ivan, brilliant and morose ...Alyosha, gentle, loving, honest...and the illegitimate Smerdyakov, sly, silent, cruel. Driven by intense passion, they become involved in the brutal murder of their own father, one of the most loathsome characters in all literature. 
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Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [736]).
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