The Brothers Karamazov
Edition: Bantam classic edition (3)
Publisher: Bantam Books
Published: 1981 03
Place of publication: Toronto, New York, London
Language: eng
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages: 960
ISBN-13: 9780553210378
Copyright date: 1970
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: "I'd die happy if I could finish this final novel, for I would have expressed myself completely." -Dostoevsky.
In 1880 Dosteovsky 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; Aloysha, 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 searches 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.
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