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Fyodor Dostoyevsky's powerful meditation on faith, meaning and morality, The Brothers Karamazov is translated with an introduction and notes by David McDuff in Penguin Classics. When brutal landowner Fyodor Karamazov is murdered, the lives of his sons are changed irrevocably: Mitya, the sensualist, whose bitter rivalry with his father immediately places him under suspicion for parricide; Ivan, the intellectual, whose mental tortures drive him to breakdown; the spiritual Alyosha, who tries to heal the family's rifts; and the shadowy figure of their bastard half-brother Smerdyakov. As the ensuing investigation and trial reveal the true identity of the murderer, Dostoyevsky's dark masterpiece evokes a world where the lines between innocence and corruption, good and evil, blur and everyone's faith in humanity is tested. This powerful translation of The Brothers Karamazov features and introduction highlighting Dostoyevsky's recurrent themes of guilt and salvation, with a new chronology and further reading. Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) was born in Moscow. From 1849-54 he lived in a convict prison, and in later years his passion for gambling led him deeply into debt. His other works available in Penguin Classics include Crime & Punishment, The Idiot and Demons. If you enjoyed The Brothers Karamazov you might like Nikolai Gogol's Dead Souls, also available in Penguin Classics. 'There is no writer who better demonstrates the contradictions and fluctuations of the creative mind than Dostoyevsky, and nowhere more astonishingly than in The Brothers Karamazov' Joyce Carol Oates 'Dostoyevsky was the only psychologist from whom I had anything to learn: he belongs to the happiest windfalls of my life' Friedrich Nietzsche 'The most magnificent novel ever written' Sigmund Freud

The Brothers Karamasov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the “wicked and sentimental” Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his three sons―the impulsive and sensual Dmitri; the coldly rational Ivan; and the healthy, red-cheeked young novice Alyosha. Through the gripping events of their story, Dostoevsky portrays the whole of Russian life, is social and spiritual striving, in what was both the golden age and a tragic turning point in Russian culture.This award-winning translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky remains true to the verbalinventiveness of Dostoevsky’s prose, preserving the multiple voices, the humor, and the surprising modernity of the original. It is an achievement worthy of Dostoevsky’s last and greatest novel.

The Brothers Karamazov is considered to be one of the greatest novels in Western Literature. Published in 1880, Fyodor Dostoyevsky tackles some of the most important concepts in philosophy and religion; the existence of God, morality, free will, reason, doubt, and faith. Readers such as Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud found his work extremely significant. A great story that weaves between the material and the spiritual, The Brothers Karamazov is one that should be in everyone’s reading collection.

The Brothers Karamazov is considered to be one of the greatest novels in Western Literature. Published in 1880, Fyodor Dostoyevsky tackles some of the most important concepts in philosophy and religion; the existence of God, morality, free will, reason, doubt, and faith. Readers such as Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud found his work extremely significant. A great story that weaves between the material and the spiritual, The Brothers Karamazov is one that should be in everyone’s reading collection.

The Brothers Karamazov is considered to be one of the greatest novels in Western Literature. Published in 1880, Fyodor Dostoyevsky tackles some of the most important concepts in philosophy and religion; the existence of God, morality, free will, reason, doubt, and faith. Readers such as Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud found his work extremely significant. A great story that weaves between the material and the spiritual, The Brothers Karamazov is one that should be in everyone’s reading collection.

The Brothers Karamazov is considered to be one of the greatest novels in Western Literature. Published in 1880, Fyodor Dostoyevsky tackles some of the most important concepts in philosophy and religion; the existence of God, morality, free will, reason, doubt, and faith. Readers such as Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud found his work extremely significant. A great story that weaves between the material and the spiritual, The Brothers Karamazov is one that should be in everyone’s reading collection.

The Brothers Karamazov is considered to be one of the greatest novels in Western Literature. Published in 1880, Fyodor Dostoyevsky tackles some of the most important concepts in philosophy and religion; the existence of God, morality, free will, reason, doubt, and faith. Readers such as Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud found his work extremely significant. A great story that weaves between the material and the spiritual, The Brothers Karamazov is one that should be in everyone’s reading collection.

The Brothers Karamazov is considered to be one of the greatest novels in Western Literature. Published in 1880, Fyodor Dostoyevsky tackles some of the most important concepts in philosophy and religion; the existence of God, morality, free will, reason, doubt, and faith. Readers such as Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud found his work extremely significant. A great story that weaves between the material and the spiritual, The Brothers Karamazov is one that should be in everyone’s reading collection.

The Brothers Karamazov is considered to be one of the greatest novels in Western Literature. Published in 1880, Fyodor Dostoyevsky tackles some of the most important concepts in philosophy and religion; the existence of God, morality, free will, reason, doubt, and faith. Readers such as Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud found his work extremely significant. A great story that weaves between the material and the spiritual, The Brothers Karamazov is one that should be in everyone’s reading collection.

The Brothers Karamazov is considered to be one of the greatest novels in Western Literature. Published in 1880, Fyodor Dostoyevsky tackles some of the most important concepts in philosophy and religion; the existence of God, morality, free will, reason, doubt, and faith. Readers such as Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud found his work extremely significant. A great story that weaves between the material and the spiritual, The Brothers Karamazov is one that should be in everyone’s reading collection.

The Brothers Karamazov is considered to be one of the greatest novels in Western Literature. Published in 1880, Fyodor Dostoyevsky tackles some of the most important concepts in philosophy and religion; the existence of God, morality, free will, reason, doubt, and faith. Readers such as Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud found his work extremely significant. A great story that weaves between the material and the spiritual, The Brothers Karamazov is one that should be in everyone’s reading collection.