The Brothers Karamazov
Edition: Reissued in one volume (10)
Series: Penguin Classics
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1982
Place of publication: London, England
Language: eng
Translated from: rus
Translation of: Братья Карамазовы
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 939
ISBN-13: 9780140444162
Copyright date: 1958
First sentence: ALEXEY KARAMAZOV WAS THE THIRD SON of Fyodor Karamazov, a landowner well known in our district in his own day, and still remembered among us because of his gloomy and tragic death, which happened thirteen years ago, and which I shall describe in its proper place.
Description: <b><i>The Brothers Karamazov,</i> the culmination of Dostoyevsky's work, was completed in 1880, shortly before his death.</b>

A portrait of his contemporary Russian society in the turbulent 1870s, the novel intoduces Fyodor Karamazov, a mean and disreputable landowner, and his three legitimate sons: Dmitry, a profligate army officer; Ivan, a writer with revolutionary ideas; and Alexy, a religious novice. In the presence of the monk Zossima, they meet to resolve a family dispute.

A tense and magnificent story unfolds through these characters, a drama of parricide and fraternal jealousy which profoundly involves questions of anarchism, atheism and the existence of God. As an artist and as a great and fearless thinker, Dostoyevsky triumphantly fulfills his aim, as recorded in his diary, <i>to find the man in man.</i>

The cover shows a detail from <i>Convicted</i> by V.Y. Makovsky.
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