The Brothers Karamazov
Contributors: Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Translator)
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Translated from: rus
Translation of: Братья Карамазовы
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 912
ISBN-13: 9780679601814
Copyright date: 1995
Subjects: 19th century fiction; Russian Novel And Short Story; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Russian; Literature: Classics; Classics; Literary; Russian & Former Soviet Union; Fiction / General
First sentence: Alexey Fyodorovitch Karamazov was the third son of Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov, a landowner well known in our district in his own day, and still remembered among us owing to his gloomy and tragic death, which happened thirteen years ago, and which I shall describe in its proper place.
Description: The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky’s crowning achievement, is a tale of patricide and family rivalry that embodies the moral and spiritual dissolution of an entire society (Russia in the 1870s). It created a national furor comparable only to the excitement stirred by the publication, in 1866, of Crime and Punishment. To Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov captured the quintessence of Russian character in all its exaltation, compassion, and profligacy. Significantly, the book was on Tolstoy’s bedside table when he died. Readers in every language have since accepted Dostoevsky’s own evaluation of this work and have gone further by proclaiming it one of the few great novels of all ages and countries.
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